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The Omaha Bee M O R N 1 N G—E V E N 1 N G—S UND A Y ] THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Publish^ N. b. UPDIKE. President BALL A RD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief business Msnsger • < MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Thn Associated Preaa, of which Ths Be# ia • member. Is exclusively entitled to the ass for republicstion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also ths local news published herein. All riithts of republicstion of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bes 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 their organisations. Entered as second-class matter Ifsy 28, 1908, at Omaha postoflice under act of March S, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for t m i _1* 1 Ann the Department or Person Wanted. 4 lamlC a WO OFFICES Main Office—17tb and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Seattle—A. L. Niets, 514 Leary Bldg. „ Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Ave. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year $6.00. 6 months 93.00. 3 months 41.76, 1 month 76c DAILY ONLY 1 year 14.60, 6 months *2.7i, 3 months 81.60, 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year 38.00. 0 months 31.75, 8 months 31.00, 1 month 6Cc Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday, $1.00 per month; daily only. 76c per month: Sunday only. 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday.1 month 86c, 1 week 20e Evening and Sunday.1 month 66e, 1 week 16e Sunday Only .1 month 20c. 1 week *e >■ .—-* h ~ ' ©nwlkiWliei&tlieWjst is at its Best TRUTH IN A DISHPAN. Not so very many years ago the McKinley tariff sought to plant a new industry in the United States. Almost all the tinplate used in this country came from Cornwall, England. A heavy duty was put upon it, that American tinplate might make head way against the English article. Some of the hulla baloo then kicked up by the free traders still lingers. One of the charges was that American industry was to be penalized for the special benefit of a few sheet steel makers. The Omaha customs house felt the effect of that tariff very early. Cudahy, for example, imported shiploads of tin, and it was all entered through the port of Omaha. The McKinley tariff bill did away with all that, for the tinplate came here from factories in and around Pittsburg. And it still does. The Cornish mills lost a lot of trade they have never yet recovered, and never will. Tinware is cheaper than ever, too. * * * Now comes another chapter in the same story. The Fordney-McCumber bill puts a high tariff on aluminum, both the metal and the finished ware. Five cents a pound on one and 11 cents a pound on the other. Lift any aluminum utensil in your kitchen, and try to figure for yourself how much the duty amounts to on the article. But American factories are making the alumi num ware that used to come from Europe. It is being sold cheaper, too. An average of 35 per cent cheaper than four years ago. More of it is being used, and the makers are prospering. Housewives do not object, so long as they get the desired articles at prices that are steadily going down and not up. Made at home, too, by American workmen who are drawing American pay and spending it for American living. • • * Watch. Here is the milk in the cocoanut. The chief aluminum makers of the country happen to be the Mellons. Andrew Mellon, head of the fam ily, is a republican. Also he is the secretary of treasury in the president’s cabinet. It does not mat ter that he is hailed as the ablest and most capable man who has filled that position since Alexander Hamilton. Moreover, he is successful business man. Therefore, down with the aluminum tariff. Down with the whole shooting match. Let us go back to where wc were four years ago, and buy our alumi num from Europe. It costs more, but it will pre vent a republican manufacturer from carrying on his business. HOLE IN THIS ARGUMENT. The president of the Fair Tariff League, who admits he left" the republican party because of its tariff policy, says he is not a free trader. He merely wants a tariff on what amounts to a free trade basis. Honest difference of opinion always exists on any great policy. Respect is accorded the views of any man, honestly held and fairly ad vanced. When positive statements used to support an ar gument are susceptible to question, though, their adoption is of doubtful value. Such a statement is the assertion of Mr. Miles that: ‘ Nine-tenths of the products of American agri culture are aold on an export or free trade basis, the prices being determined in Uberpool or Ham burg." For many years the American farmer's market has been at home. Of wheat, for (example, the ex portable surplus has rarely risen to as high as 200, 000,000 bushels, and the home demand is continually increasing. This also applies to everything else the farmer produces. Instead of raising all that . is consumed, the United States imports great quan tities of food. How does the protective tariff affect the selling price of food abroad? The ryot of India, the peas ant of France, the moujik of Russia, the farmer of Cajnada, Argentine, Australia, all arc concerned. They all raise wheat, and tha price of their wheat In part is determined by the exportable surplus from the United States. Also, in fart it is determined by the price paid in the United States. Why did the republican congress in the early summer of 1921 enact a law placing an emergency tariff on wheat? Because Argentine wheat was coming into the United States on the Atlantic sea board and Canadian wheat was crossing the border from the north, and the price of American wheat was held down by competition from abroad. With the recovery of the market for wheat in America the price abroad has come up. It is foolish to say that the price is fixed finally in Liverpool and Ham burg. European buyers in American markets pay the going price for grain. And the going price here is determined largely by the call for grain at home. This is true of other things the farmer has to sell. He now has the American market to himself. Repeal the tariff, as the demorrats are pledged to do, and the home market, not for the farmer alone but for all others, bceomes fair game for foreign producers. Prices will go down. Nothing else could happen. Nine-tenths of the products of the American farm are not sold abroad, or at prices fixed abroad. ITie Fair Tariff league’s argument is all full of holes on this point as it is on others. The perfect theory is that offered by Woodrow Wilson, unrestricted commerce between nations. Good practice, how ever, retains the home market for the home pro ducer. MAKING BOTH ENDS MEET. Out on the Pacific coast the true hall mark of regal descent is “49.” If your ancestor was one of the Argonauts, nothing else matters so much. But the inner door leading to the sanctuary of the Na tive Sons opens only to a 49er’s descendant. Some few of the originals still linger, and Ezra Meeker is one. Really, he is a 48er, for he was on the way to Oregon before the news came from Sutter's milt. Francis Parkman immortalized the Oregon Trail, but his pictures have never glowed with the light that falls upon the simple scenes one finds described in the tales recounted by Ezra Meeker. Emerson Hough got inspiration from these, as well as from other sources, for his fine story of the overland trip of the pioneers. It has served to make familiar in some sense to millions what those voyagers endured. No story or film can convey any sense of the fine courage of these splendid men and women who day after day set their backs to the rising and faced the setting sun, as they plodded onward to the goal fixed for themselves. It was to found a new empire, although they did not realize it. A new chapter in human history, a record in achievement, was being written. They were helping to write it, but gave little thought to that. Amongst the wonders and the beauties of the trip they had to exert the utmost vigilance. Dan gers, known and unknown, beleaguered them on ev ery side. The mountain barriers, the desert wastes, the terror of the lava beds, the presence of wild beasts and wilder men, raging torrents and treach erous fords, all must be met and surmounted. Ezra Meeker trudged along with one of these early caravans. A reporter writes of the “faint trail that led to Oregon.” If you let Meeker tell it in his books, it was so faint that for the most part it did not exist until those first outfits made the tracks, some of which yet endure. In after years, Meeker retraced his steps, plodding along with an ox-team, marking the route he had pursued as a young man. That work done, the venerable man, who is now 94, has crowned his experience by an airplane flight. In fewer hours than it once re quired of weeks, he has made the trip. The ends have met, the cycle is complete. And that wonder ful man, Ezra Meeker, has combined in his own ex perience the marvels of two stages of civilization. DAVIS AS A MUD GUNNER. One of the lamentable facts in connection with the democratic management of the campaign is that it has induced a high-toned gentleman to get down to the level of a rabble-rouser. John W. Davis was praised by the Bryan brothers as a man of intel lectual culture. At least one of them knows what that means. Mr. William Jennings Bryan is report ed to be calmly and dispassionately discussing prin ciples on the western stump. His big home at Miami is on the market, and he has lost interest in men. John W. Davis, however, has lost his interest in principles, issues and similar matters, and is devot- i ing his time to the business of attacking persons. He has paid his respects to President Coolidge, to Dawes, and now is going after “Uncle Andy” Mellon. ! Not that it will make any material difference in the i outcome. Mr. Mellon’s great mistake was to engage j in business and make a success of it. That this I should be an offense in the eyes of John W. Davis indicates remarkable facility on his part for chang ing his* mind. Just before he was nominated for president Mr. Davis had made an argument for one of his clients, and won the case, the decision coming shortly after he was put on the ticket over the pro test of Mr. Bryan. It is to Mr. Davis’ credit that he was able to go before the court and show that his client was entitled to an increase in revenue, and therefore to be permitted to advance its charges for service. Nor should it count against him that this client was the New York Telephone company. That con cern is as rightly entitled to a reasonable return for its services as though its business was a peanut or popcorn stand. But after pleading so successfully the cause of a monopoly before court, Mr. Davis ; looks funny attacking so-called “monopoly” before ! the public. This is no defense for monopoly in any form, hut it is a tribute to John W. Davis’ versatil ity that he could so soon become a mud-gunner as daring if not as efficient at "Pat” Harrison. He has not sat in with the boys in the back room with out learning some of iheir tricks. Moses said: “Pharoah, king of Egypt, is but a noise. ’ We mention this merely to give inquirers a line on the ancestry of a certain Wisconsin man who thinks he is running for president. Somehow or other Kronkhart reminds u- of the man Job was talking to when he said, “No doubt ye are the people, and wisdom will die with you.” If .1. Ham I.ewis says "it is anybody's rare,” the outlook for the democratic ticket must by mighty poor. Japan insists she wasn’t looking at us when «he said it, but it was heard over here just the same. Brother Charley is sweeping the west very much like King Canute swept bark the tide. Good campaign slogan: “Vote!” ----— Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie i _I__/ 1IEKOKK OF EVERY DAY. Beneath the stars where all things are common and high and low— Where men grow weary and pass on, where children learn and grow. Where fickleness wins vain repute, and merit gropes along. Where hate Is ever weak and where love evermore Is st rong— There moves about the multitude around Its circling way: The multitude that numbers the heroes of every d.tv. Tollers of town, tillers of soil steadfast, loyal, true - Who ask no laurels for (he deeds of goodness which they do Who raise their children prudently according to their ken, Aral fashion women of their girls and of their boys make men i Who brave the common throe* and tread across the unkempt way: Those whom we meet, but seldom know- heroes of every day! Heroes unnoticed In the mart, the worlds civilian knights; Mere friends who live their fleeting years behind the brilliant lights, And bent with grim decrepitude, march forward mile on mile, To claim tho silent praise that worthy marks their arduous while- - Who, when the mortal sunset comes, lay their regrets h way, And die *s they have lived and loves! heroes of every day! | V t But Isn’t the After Effect Likely to Be Bad? _ - —_——-— ....... ■ ■ ■ ■ - - ——j THIS \AJIU. MAKE HIM HATE ( Hr5 OWN $OVERM\NlENT L AiSTD HE'LL VOTE: FOR, S _ME TO GET RIP OF '--s Letters From Our Readers AM letters must he signed, hnt name w ill be withheld apon request. Communi cations of 204 words find less will be siren preference. < --—— —- J Frefcr La FoIJette. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Every presidential candi date has two types of opponents. The one type are opponents because of prejudice. Not only dense heads, but the finest type of men and women are chuck full of prejudice. Coolldge Is denounced as a standpatter, and La Follette as a radical by folks that would be charmed by either of these men and would find themselves In harmony with their Ideals If they could spend a half hour in their Inti mate company. But these men and women have tagged the candidates and no amount of argument will make them change. The other type of opponents are men and women who may really understand a mans position and sympathies and appreciate It, but dis agree with their economic or political point of view. These men and women can be reasoned with. Let us get rid of blind, unthinking prejudice. Let us cheerfully and candidly admit that not only our candidate, hut his opponents, too, are good American citizens, that their motives are elevated and their per sonal life of a high average. Such an attitude toward all our candidates w-Ill go far toward lifting American politics on a higher level. Personally I would prefer Mr. Cool ldge to a great many other possible presidential candidates; he Is a clean, capable, conscientious man, a poli tician of the good class; with ntany of his views I most heartily agree, especially when he magnifies the homely virtues of thrift, honesty and piety. But I shall vote for I -a Fol-! lette, because, in my opinion, he has i in his own way all the Idealism of Coolldge, and In addition ideas about the relation between rapltal and labor! and about the management of modern Industrial problems which, I believe, are more adequate for the needs Of our whole people. ALBERT KUHN. •lerry Pleads W It It Women. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: Registration has begun and the country should register the largest vote In its history, because now Is the time to make manifest to tin whole world whether our boast of being a "sovereign people" Is Just 1 fled or not. We have the charter of our lights and every voter has a po tent weapon wherewith to defend any Infringement on their rights There are several tickets in the held—there Is one common Interest for the w-hole country: To get out the vote. Tn the presidential eleetlon of 1920 there was t---v Abe Martin O' course drivin' from th' bark sent Is mighty exasperatin', but, it would lie fun t' know jest how many people are Walkin' around alive an’ well t'llay jest because mother butted in. We kin make n woman twice as mad bv callin’ her toe fat as we kin by callin' her two faced. (Cnpyrlflit. H i; 4 much said about the Immense vote cast. It being the first year of women voters. An analysis of the vote, how ever, revealed the extraordinary fact that It was less than 50 per cent of the total registration, and It was smaller, proportionately, than the to tal of previous years. Of the vote actually cast, the victorious party got something like 35 per cent. There should be a great effort this year to redress the abuses indicated by these figures. We have no lack of the mechanism wherewith It should be done. We have the old parties and the new with their respective "campaigns of education." We have reform leagues of various kinds, with thrir respective propaganda. For the women we have national and state organizations, leagues and leaders enough to bring out a \f'te which will do honor to the Intelli gence and patriotism of the women. Among nub women voters there is a vast number, married and single, who are, for the most part, by stern necessity obliged to earn their own living and often to maintain a fam ily. The requirement of elating their age at registration deters many wo men, and this not from vanity, but from a very natural and well-founded fear that so doing they will Injure themselves In the work by which they live. Many of the women know, by bitter Experience, the reason for the lightness of the feminine vote. The churches could do splendid j service to the country by urging the ] women to register and vote. The: women are patriotic and true pa triotism Is a religious virtue. JERRY HOWARD. -1 O NS: 4nd Their Cure Cornu — * homy tndmrotuon and ihtekontng of tho optdor. m%o at oomo po\nt, 'op' 'toiiy on tho too*, produc'd by frac tion or prooourr. — won* ran. Their Cure— C At T VS, of course. And you can get it j from the corner drug store. actus Cure j Center Shots Scientists are promising man 1,000 years or life, but nobody so far has promised him an inducement.—Phila delphta North American. In New York a man was sentenced to jail for 30 days when he appeared in traffic court for the 41th time since 1919. Wonder if he knows where his home is located?—Cleveland Times. When Senator La Follette appear ed on the platform at Madison Square Harden he held his watch In his hand. ' Battle Bob" is not a conserva tive but he is at least cautious.— Brooklyn Eagle. Washington wants Walter John son's birthday declared a legal holi day. It has yet to see a senator or congressman who seems to deserve that honor.—Dea Moines Register. A wild ride in an auto ended In a flower bed, says a news dispatch from I !a warden More frequently they end under flower beds.—Chero kee (la.) Chief. The federal treasury is trying to popularize the silver dollar in the east because of the low upkeep of metallic mnne\ A whole lot of us find the keep so hard that we've For babies tortured by chafing or rashe? or any of the other skin troubles to which infsnts and children srs subject, mothers will find thst Resinol Ointment (tends unsurpassed. Doctors and nurses recommend it with ut most confidence because of its harmless ingredients end its success in healing eczema. Slope the itching and burning at once, and hastens the healing. Resinol Soap might well be called a toilet soap for babies, because its action is so gentle yet it cleanses so thoroughly. Many mothers have adopted its use exclusively, claiming that it keeps baby's skin healthy and hia hair soft and nlky. Sold by all druggists. Resinol r~ -r.r-■ SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST! Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on (ablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians 24 years for Uolds Headache Neuralgia Lumbago I ‘'in 1 oothache Neuritis Rheumatism £ /V only ■•nayer" package | Ut/ contains proven directions. V. Jr / lUn.lT “Rayor” bojaa of 12 taldrta . 7"^ , „ Al»° bottU* of 24 and 100 Oru«ia«a aPTtrlo U m. trad* mart at Da,at M.uttfactur* »( UaaaaMUa.cMa.tcr at SallcrUaacM f I SUNNYSIDEBP". Hake Comfort.nor forget, qhat Sunrise ne^erfailedus^etr^ How long has that old gray horse of Alfred Corntah-. bjjm Throng If we"are *no *Vnlstaken* the* horse was standing erect “ thertT M flowing: tail juet as jaunty and his eye Just as bright was then. Sneaking of the lack of enthusiasm manifested in this '"in palgn^doyouremember the Monday night before theelcctlon of 1896? W. J. Bryan was to arrive in Omaha ..tout * * evening, and of course a big parade w.,s organiaed fm him And the republicans also organized a parade. K-.n t * 1 squally things looked? It dawned upon the manag rs '* 'h„ two parades that it would never do to let them eollbi . D brook would have been a Sunday schoo1 by compar son I was finally settled by letting the democrats do their parading first because they had their presidential candidate along. Those were the days when Washington Hall, on Kigliteenlh between Harney and Howard, was the political forum. In that old hall there were more political deals put up. nrioie political hot air let loose, than in any room ever constructed in Nebraska. It long since gave way to the present Storz automobile building Appleton, Wig., is a city of about 10,000 people. It has the arterial system" of controlling str-et traffic < ertain streets are designated “Arterial Streets," and all automobiles must come to a full stop before crossing them. After dodging 4.768 automobiles within three dav* after coming back from a visit to Appleton, we are convinced that the "ar'e :al street system ought to be adopted in Omaha. A brief note from K W. Howe. Potato Hill philosopher, tells us that It was raining when he arrived In Om ha one day last week, so he Just, kept right on going, fearful of being stuck in Nebraska mud as be hurried back to his Kansas home He promises to make a special trip to Omaha some day and tell the Omaha Press Club a few things worth while The other day we had occasion to purchase gome razor 1 jlades. We ware the only customer at the rounter. but we 11 had to wait a few moments while the young lady fluffed her \1 bobbed hair, applied her powder rat-, penciled her lips and \ l smoothed down her eyebrows. Will the time ever come when \ we will have to wait to buy a pair of shoes until the sales man shaves and combs his hair? t The annual beet harvest is on in western Nebraska, and lugubrious wails from the professional child savers are due to begin at any moment. The spectacle of the child savers weep ing over the sight of tiny tots of 7 or 8 years wielding heavy knives in numbed finger*, topping heavy bee's, brings con vulsive sobs to our throats. We have seen the child savers weeping about it many times, but in si* years' intimate acquaintance with the beet industry we never saw 7 or 8-year old children topping beets. . WILL M. MAUPIN. I ^- -- - never thought about the upkeep.— Louisville Times. Jud Tunkins says he doesn't know which to be most surprised at, the grown up people in the fashion maga zines or the children in the comic jragea.—Washington Star. LUMBER Millwork and General Building Material at 25% or More Saving to you. Don't even consider buy ing until you hare sent us com plete lists of what you need and have our estimates by return mail. No money down. We ship quick and pay the freight. W. F. Hoppe Lumber Co. 9th and S Sti. Lincoln, Neb. Built Larger | Better Circulation 1 STANDARD femes IBLANKETSI Large Assortment REAL BARGAINS Priced From s| 95c to $6.95 I Scott Omaha Tent $ and Awning Co. jS| 15th and Howard Opposite Auditorium ti NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for Sept., 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .73,340 Sunday .73,865 Does not include returns, left overs. samples or papers spoiled in printing and include# no special j sales or free circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and * worn to before me this 4th day of October, 1924. W. H. QUIVEY, (Seal) Notary Public | 1 YOU CAN RIDE FROM OMAHA IO NEW YORK FOR IF ym%u ticker read* eta ERIE RAILROAD DOUBLE TRACK FROM CHICAGO Tbe scenic double track passenget route Two of the finest through train! daily. 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