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_ — The Omaha BeF M O R N 1 N G—E V E N i N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. b. UrDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER, Editor in Chief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee it a member. Is exclusively entitled to the usa for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local newt published herein. All rights of republicatioB of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee Is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation uudltb. and The Omaha Bee’a circulation is regularly audited bv their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28. 1808. at Omaha postoffice under act of March 3. 1878. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for » y s . • f Ann the Department or Person Wanted ^ * IlHiilC IWJU OFFICES Main Office—17tb and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Seattle—A. L. Nietz. 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 i 1 year 15.00, 6 months >3.00. 3 montm <1.75, l month T5c DAILY ONLY 1 year 14.50, 6 months >2.7^ 3 months 81.50, 1 month 75« SUNDAY ONLY 1 year 83.00. 6 months 81.75, 3 months 81.00, 1 month 80c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 600 miles from C*r^ha: Daily and Sunday. 81 00 per month, daily only, 76c per month; Sunday only, 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday.1 month 85c. 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday .*1 month 66c, 1 week 15e I Sunday Only .. month 20c, lweeklc Gmdbd Vhefe (he^bst is at its Best • KIDDING” THE CONSTITUTION. One of the remarkable facts developed by the present discussion of the Constitution of the United States is this: Any soapbox orator can expound the document and its meaning with fluency and clarity, while the judges of the supreme court and on down flounder in abysmal ignorance and make innumer able mistakes in their efforts to get at the right. Oscar Ameringer, ablest among the present day socialist journalists, writes in the Illinois Miner: "The Constitution of the United States is not a divine document. It was not handed down from Mt. Sinai amid the thunder and lightning of Je hovah. i "bike all constitutions and forms of government. It did net even spring from the inner consciousness of any man or any set of men. Constitutions are the products of social evolution and our own constitu tion is a development or sprout of the English form of government as it existed at that particular time.’’ In this view Comrade Ameringer differs from William Ewart Gladstone, who still is revered as one of England’s greatest statesmen. The famous Eng lishman called the Constitution of the United States "the greatest work ever struck from the human brain at one moment.” What he did not know about the English system of government, which Amerin ,ger would have us ape, no modern socialist could tell him. Mr. Ameringer goes on to explain that I.a Fol lette only wants to submit a proposal to the Ameri can people. He might do that without taking the trouble to run for president. As a senator of the United States since 1905 he has had almost 20 years in which to introduce the necessary resolution, and has not done so yet. What has delayed him? If the La Follette idea ever is adopted, then congress will become the final authority and power in this country. Here is a socialist picture of con gress. It is written by Comrade Louis F. Post, in t!i; World Tomorrow: "To particularize the weaknesses of congress as . , . a representative body charged with providing for the people, would challenge the skill of an old-time indictment draughtsman. It would necessitate a labyrinthine tour through tempting sorial affiliations at Washington dinner tallies and afternoon teas; through a network of committees controlled by their chairmen into the speaker's chambers; into the secrets of party caucuses and committee majorities; through lobbies Infested with skilled agents of big financial Interests; into detective groups engaged in discovering moral weaknesses for coercive pur poses. Any such .particularization, would aUo re quire a familiar acquaintance with the confidential amenities between house and senate, especially the secret deliberations of conference committees. In these committees, appointed on occasion for adjust ing differences between house and senate, govern ment by and for the people is often shrewdly swapped for government by and for the Invisible , dictatorship.” In what regard would the situation be improved, should the fate of legislation be removed from con trol of men who arc learned in the law, and vested in those who have just been described by Post? Does not this apparent levity of the socialists indicate their real purpose? • • • They have no sincere desire to amend the Con stitution of the United States in any particular. Victor Berger, discussing the proposed child labor amendment in the house last spring, said the Consti tution is “an outworn document.” Ameringer sneers at what he calls the assumption by the farmers that they were “the beginning and end of all wisdom.” The drive is to establish discontent. The only hope that Berger and his comrades have of ever winning is to destroy the faith of Americans in their govern '•' bient. They deny connection with the Third Inter nationale, but their doctrine leads us to that as cer tainly as water runs down hill. They are “kidding” the Constitution. It is booked for the discard, just as the soviets in Russia abolished God. Charles G. Dawes is right when he says the time io extinguish a prairie fire is when it starts. If Americans want to continue “govern ment of the people, by the people, for the people,” they will head off the incendiaries who are now try ing to fan into a destructive conflagration the spark nf socialism, which was expiring in America until La Follette gave it life. A vote for La Follette is •t vote for the revolution. COOLIDGE JUST A REAL MAN. Writers have busied themselves for months weav ing words about Calvin Coolidge. Pen pictures of many sorts have been furnished the world. One nf the most labored attempts was that of t.hp demo Vlatie propagandists, aimed at. dispersing what they termed the “Coolidge Myth.” Just what, that rs no body seems to know, for it is not possible to attach much that is mythical to s man whose life has been so open ns has that of Calvin Coolidge. Now, how ever, we are getting s close-up of the president, the “low-down,” so to speak on a great man. It is furnished by one of the reporters assigned to cover the World Series. That is a rush job. The reporter has to keep track of each play as it is made, end accurately report each movement of the game. " At the same time he must he on the alert for any ' tiling of interest that is going on in the stands. And this reporter caught one Incident that will go home to the heart of Americans. “Bucky” Harris had just walloped a home run hit, the first score in a hotly contested and decisive game. Of course the president stood up with the crowd and cheered, but, says the news item, “Mr. Coolidge applauded for more than a minute after Harris had crossed the plate." What does that signify? Ask any baseball fa natic. Just means that the president is a man like the rest of us, and responds to a home run hit by one of the home towrf boys with the same zest as would the resident of Wayback under like circum stances. There is no myth about that. He is chief magistrate of the greatest nation on earth, but he is also one of its citizens, and is profoundly moved by the crack of the bat as it delivers a four-base hit. SMASH THE SORENSON AMENDMENT. V'oters are warned not to allow confusion inci dent to the closing days of the campaign to cloud their minds with regard to the amendment to the constitution of Nebraska initiated by C. A. Sorenson of Lincoln. This amendment provides: “The nomination of candidates for the office of United States senator, member of congress, member of the state legislature, and for state and county elective offices, shall be l y direct primary. Ba<l!ots used in the nomination or the election of candidates for elective public offices created by the constitu tion or laws of this state shall have thereon no party name or circle, or any other designation rela tive to candidates." The sole object and the only possible effect, of the foregoing if adopted will be to destroy all polit ical parties in the state of Nebraska. That is, as they now exist. Instead of the orderly, responsible party groups that have functioned and are function ing so well in the great business of carrying on the government, we will have something akin to what existed in the feudal ages. Loaders, like those described by Rienzi, “strong in some hundred spearmen,” “great alone in that magic spell, a name,” will come up to carry on for their own selfish purposes. Around them will as semble a few or many voters. A combination of them will be able to dictate the government. Lack ing any designation on the ballot, the only concen trated effort behind a candidate would he that fos tered by his personal following or the support of some other leader with whom he had bargained. No need to dilate on this picture. Any mind is capable of pursuing it to the end it must produce, the destruction of responsible government, and the substitution therefor of control by clique or faction. Nebraska cannot afford to knock the underpinning from beneath the house. That is wliat will happen if the Sorenson amendment goes over. Remember, the amendment is not necessary ^o preserve the direct primary law. That system is secure, for it has the approval of all the political parties as well as the people. It should not be made*1 the wooden horse by which the enemies of popular government hope to gain entrance to the citadel. Smash the Sorenson amendment at the polls. Hit it so hard that its champions will be made to under stand that the people of Nebraska know the differ ence between responsible government and the kind ! these dreamers of nightmares \vould provide. Have J order and not vagaries for the foundation. SAYS YANKTON TO OMAHA. Over half a century ago Omaha business men were interesting themselves in a project that would bring this city closer to the then capital of Dakota. A railroad to the north was financed, but never ! reached its original destination. No matter what intervened, something headed off the track in Cedar county, and that is that. Now, after a long time, Yankton is able to cross the Missouri river on a bridge. This does not pro vide direct rail connection from that city to Omaha, but it is a mighty incentive to the construction of the few miles of track that yet must be put down to close the gap. Many promises have been made in days gone by, but the fulfillment of these has been postponed. On Thursday Omaha will join with Yankton and other cities interested in a celebration of the bridge opening. With that opening comes tie probability of Oma- | ha's trade territory being greatly extended. When a direct line of railroad stretches from here to Yankton, it will make possible entry on equal terms to a rich and fertile region in which Omaha has been handicapped as against St. Paul and Minneapo lis, Chicago and other rivals for the trade. It does not so much matter that the Twin Cities are looking ahead to easier access to northeast Nebraska. They have that now through the Great Northern line that runs from Ashland to Sioux City. What will count is that Omaha will no longer be compelled to go 'around the elbow by way of Sioux City to get into southeastern Dakota territory. And Yankton is ready for this. It will increase the prestige of the fine old town on the Missouri that has so long been bottled up. That is why the folks up there are getting ready for such a blowout. Omaha has a more than neighborly interest in the affair, and should be correspondingly awake to its importance. More political definitions: “Slush fund," any money given to aid the republican campaign. “Patriotic contributions," monev given to help the democrats. “Price of liberty," dollars spent for “Battling Bob." If these gentle rains are doing nothing else, they are giving fall planting a great deal of encourage ment. “Battling Bob’s" scheme for keeping others off his ticket seems to have flared back in a couple of places. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick resigned his pastor ate in New York, but nothing has happened yet. No one will ever call AI Smith “silent." f --- --—s Homespun Verse —By Omaha’s Own Post— Robert Worthington Darie WHEN THEY'VE GONE AWAY TO VISJT. When they've gone «w«v to visit, A ml I roam the place alone,— There la something -hut what Is it?— th at. I yearn to make my own. There la some e^aentlal lacking; There 1* some content ami*? A* I stood niM watched them packing I beheld them taking this: Life a accordance nml life's pleasure, fUch with countless tiling* divine,— And the element* that measure ft very happiness of mine Here In life we journey nfter Smiles nml tender words and true Cental quips and honest laughter, Heading us the darknena through /-———“ Letters From, Our Readers All letters must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Communi cations ot 200 words and less, will be given preference. V- _) Speaking of Democrats. Norfolk, Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Ree: There was once a big, overgrown boy who etubbed his toe. and his predicament wag some thing like a lot of we demoeratg. He was too big to l.awl about it, but it hurt too blamed bad for him to keep still. We have certainly had a pretty pair of leaders wished upon us. One with his eyes looking up Into the hills and both hands reaching down Into the min of partisan abuse; the other campaigning for “Battling Bob,” hoping to sidetrack Ids running mate and pick the plum himself. Neither is in the statesman class. Neither is consistent. Neither is en titled to the vote of 100 per cent democrats, if I am qualified to inter pret the true meaning of democracy. t'p to the present time T have been given hut one logical reason for a democrat to swallow the nauseating dose. I am told by my democratic friends that we must support the ticket, however objectionable it be, m order to keep up our organization. I cannot see it that wav. In my humble judgment the so-called demo cratic organization needs renovating instead of endorsement I can con ceive of 4no greater curse to wish upon the party than to have it suc cessful with such a lineup. There would come ultimate disaster follow ing such a victory. I am too partisan to feel good over a republican victory, yet my in terest in the future welfare of my party will cause me to rejoice at its temporary defeat this year. It is the only means by which we ran rid ourselves of demagogues who have assumed leadership. As the leading democratic paper in the stale suggests, the difference be tween myself and thousands of other democrats, the ex senator included, is. 1 ain not "hiding the shells.” G. H. NIC HOES. lambing Over (he Record. York. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: The office hungry bunch la still with tie. with the usual stock in trade—falsehoods. Iam ever ready to grant anyone else their light to choice of men, methods and policy they may think are the best for the country, but when they will go be fore the people, pretending to give facts, when they know what they say is not a matter of opinion with them In contrast of the opinions of their opponents, but whnt they say is absolutely false, and hank on credulity or illiteracy as fertile soil to sow if In, I protest. Take the statements of the farmer being robbed by the tariff on all lie buys, to enrich the New England manufacturers. AVhen these men know that the McCumber Knrdney bill put them on the "free list," so If they are higher than they used to he when they were on the tariff list, the tariff is not to hlame, is it? Now comes the World-Herald with an admission of the fa< ts that farm implements are on the free list, but says its the tariff on the st'd that eniers into their construction. Well, (lie tariff on that is lower now, so that ougiit not raise prices. What think ye, voters, of that? Now they have found another big elephant in a thimble In the aluminum tariff, which is 3 rents per pound in the McCumber law and 2 ■ ents in tlie1 Underwood law, a difference of 3 cents per pound on the raw metal and on the “manufactured, or partly manufactured." it is 9 cents in the McCumber law' and 20 per centum ad valorem in the Underwood law. The housewives that are being so ruth lcssly robbed hy that 'Toliber tariff." know that some of the fine wares in that line costing It will scarcely weigh a pound, so 20 per ceptum ad valorem would cost them 5 cents for tariff and 9 cents per pound would cost n cents, a difference of 4 rents, and the article wilt last a lifetime if cared for, so you can see how she is held up and robbed. While we are on 1h« tariff we will just mention an Item in the demo eratic Underwood bill that has a higher duty than in the McCumber hit!. Tt is ( heap cotton hose. But on silk the tariff Is much lower than in the McCumber law. Queer, isn't it? Then we heard much in 1S92 shout the tariff on butcher knives and tin plate, hut we put it ott and quit im porting them, giving work for that many more people, enabling them to buy more farm produce, making the people self-supporting. But the World Herald howled ahotlt the tariff on print paper and under the Under wood law', paid about 360 per cent mnre than under the M'Uiimber law. Mr, Bryan Is still harping about the farmers' prosperous condition under the democratic administration snd their lamentable condition under the republicans. Why does not some farmer ask him If he sold sny grain about June, 1919. and then anywhere from September. 1920 to March 1. 1921, and the price he got Or, in other words, to "put tip or shut up." but he will i t do It, for he dare not. I was reading In an old paper la democratic paper, of course), this week. It was printed In 1X96. It said that Japan w as rfadv to manufacture grain binders at 142 apiece and bicy cles at $17. if we would lake off the tariff Now. why in the name of rea son, do not these pretended friends of the farmers slip over ami tell the Japs the gate ts open? They speak of records. Shades of Ananias covet us from the light of truth, which will not only show theirs 16 to 1, hut 37 to J, deeper In the hole than we and the hulk of theirs is party guilt and not personal, but ours Is personal, re r ■ •> Abe Martin I.nfl Bud, president o’ th’ Optini ist club, resigned t'day lifter he wui fined lit.20 (or leavin' his car slandiit’ under an arc light without th' tail light burnin'. It don’t seem t' be generally known, but bobbed hair makes th’ young look about as young, an’ th’ ole older. (Coprii(ht. is* ) f gardless of what they sav. When we wanted a purchasing and auditing board for the war. the press reports told us that Mr. Wilson objected to It and gave as his reason that it looked like "a lack of confidence in me, in fact, T take It as a reflection on me," and his party, with but few excep tions. laid down on the Job of safe guarding the people'* interests. If we had put that law over or made a law of that bill, so all supplies would have been offered on a bid In competition with others, and a can-, cellng clause in them, we could have saved billions of the war waste and graft and every bit of It that could have been saved by such precaution Is Just that much waste and graft that the party is guilty of. Another huge graft was the eost plus con tracts, and when the investigating committee came across extortion and they flashed a cost plus contract tn your face, you was through. Hut what thev found and had bona fide evidence for and brought In and laid it on the table and recommended criminal action, was any taken under tile democratic administration? No. When the Harding administration came in those paper* were not to be found. Now, where was Mr. Davis, that promiser of honesty in office, in governmental affairs, and Mr. Walsh, that great servant of the people, that they did not at least try to protect the public interests. But. no. they could sleep peacefully midst it all, and at the outset of the oil investiga tion, Walsh said: "1 was satisfied for two years past that something radic ally wrong was going on." Yet he could let it go on until just before election and then try with the most shameless misuse of legal procedure ever put on a court record in this countr y, tried to spread suspicion over everybody connected with the adminis tration and ektmmej the scum off of the underworld and allowed them to tell what they thought nr surmised and to put into dead people's mouths such as would help form an opinion of terrible wrong being done. That is the way we gid the "great scandal," while his finding disclosed no fraud on the government more than It was done without consent of his superiors and mane arrangements for storage that the right of which belonged to congress. But he cot a much liette* rental on the land than the demo crats did on what they leased and no provision for storage and the 525,000 he Is said to have received from Sin clair and the $100,000 from Doheney, whether you rail it a loan, as they did. or a tip or a bribe, it did not come from the public funds like the bil lions filched from the people under Wilson. And the Forbes deal, as rot ten and disgusting as it is. would not pay Interest tin the democratic steals for 30 days; and my candid opinion is that men. doing as some are now, trying to breed distrust beyond Just cause, that they may have a chance to cash In on it politically, are 57 varieties of corruptionnes* worse than all the Falls and Forties with which we have been cursed. You may not agree with that, but your failing to do so changes no facta in the ease. Iienrv Ford has a slogan: "The neg lected truth." I atn riot trying to help him. lie seems to lie pretty well able to help himself Hut l am in terested In "the assassinated truth." DEFENDKK. Nebraska in October. Harvard. Neb To the Kditor of The Omaha Bee: Nebraska in Octo ber; bow she thrills at the picture these words call to mind. From the hour when the stillness • f the morn ing is broken by the chatter of in numerable birds, busy with plans for their flight south, until darkness shuts put the view, there is not an hour but adds new charm to the ever changing picture. The rising sun reveals a «oen« of surpassing beauty. The rolling pas tures, the wheat fields showing faint ly green and the cornfields, all brown and waiting for the busker* to relieve them of their store «>f j gold, stretch away and lose them selves in the purple haze that hangs like a fairy veil on the horizon. The first light frost has turned the leaves to gold and crimson and every tree and shrub in dooryard and roadside Is ablaze with glory. There is music in the faint rustle of the torn rows; and every passing breeze rob* the trees of some of their gorgeous foliage and sends it drifting lazily to earth through ’be golden sunshine that pours like h mellow flood over all the land and reflects Its varied beauty against the brilliant : blue of the sky. Finally the day slips to Its clos* and fades awav in the glories of sun art. Not the deep crimsons and royal purples of later autumn, hut the soft shades of roue and gray and lavender I that make you think of an exquisite pastel. With darkness comes a sense of peace and rest, and then through the stillness rises earth s evening song Not the bird a busy song of morning, for they, ton. have sought th ir rest after the toil of the day. hut the rythmic chant of crickets and katydids and the croaking of frogs in some wayside pool. Theirs is the low dreamy song that lulls the world to ie-t when the day is done. So the lovely da vs drift by. and It is no wonder that to those who love it best, there is no spot in all the world so charming ns Nebraska In October. M ll.Idi TINT .1 KAN AYTP.V. emune m ■ I Aspirin SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN” and INSIST! Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians 24 years for Colds Headache Pain Neuralgia Toothache lumbago Neuritis Rheumatism Accept only “Raver’' pack age which contains proven directions. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablet* \Wo bottles of 24 and 100 Hruggista A«plrla la the trade mark uf lU/er Manufacture of Mono*c«*tlea. Ideatrr of Sal cpUctcid 4 f-- ' Highway Planning «■ From the Chiesxo Tribune. Highways today are planned now much as railroad systems were planned 50 years ago. They are not planned. Piecemeal construction, local inter est, an emphasis on the Load rather than the system, and much promis cuous enthusiasm have somehow given as much mileage as concrete. Tlte system ns a whole could he bet ter organized. A system of trunk roads should interlock the greater centers of population. St. Louis. T)e troit, st. Paul, New Orleans, New York, Seattle and San Franctso must eventually be tied by concrete directly to Chicago if the automobile Industry continues to develop. Today those roads need straightening and widen ing. A second system of roads should penetrate the recreational areas of America. These roads should he built for beauty ami on a different plan. It will take state planning and na tional planning to accomplish it. Five and one-half million persons annually visit our national forests. Two and one.half million of thc.se are campers, fishers and hunters. More than 4.00(1.000 of them are motorists. In Colorado alone tourists, campers and fishers spend $25,000,000 in one year. The need for recreational road systems is evident. They will pay the state that builds them. America Is a nation on wheels. No people Is nmre mobile. We have in herited i* from our past. We, have made facilities for it In our present. Our mobility is the condition of our national unity. No factor in that is more important than good roads. It Is time that general road planning be made a regular part of our provision for national highways. Its force has been too feeble in the past. International Cheering. From th« Tacoma Ledger. American sport language, it ap pears, Las become almost internation al. The "rah, rah" of our domestic football enthusiasts is accepted in many lands and used jusl as our young collegians use it. "Attaboy" and "Strike 'Irn out"' are no longer mysteries to our foreign brethren of whatever continent or country. But just as this language is making its brotherly influence felt, there comes a reaction against it in one land which may in time be taken up in many others. Mexico, through its secretary of publie instruction, de clares positively against the use of American college yells and sport terms. Spanish-speaking athletes, they say. must be cheered or booed, as the case may be, in Spanish phrases and yells. It looks like a backward step. The situation ought to he brought to the attention of the league of nations. If the young men of the world can t speak a common language on the athletic field or in the athletic bleach ers. what hope is there for universal peace? He Was Truthful, Anyway. D. Ft. Knox tells some funny legal stories In Ills "Quotable Anecdotes." Here is one with an Irish flavor: ' Magistrate (to new policeman!— Did you notice no suspicious charac ters .shout the neighborhood?' "New Policemen—Shure, yer hon or. I saw but one man. nnd 1 asked him wot he was doin' there at that time o' night. Sez lie. I have no business here jest now. but 1 expect to open a jewelry store in this vic-lni \ ihtbtiskmfm'. Chronic coughs and persistent colds lead to serious lung trouble You can stop them now with Creomulsion. an emulsified creosote that is pleasant to lake. Creomulsion is a new medkal discovery with twofold action: it soothes and heals the inflamed mem branes and kills tlie germ. Of sll known drugs, creosote Is recognised by the medit.il fraternitt as the greatest healing agency for the treatment of chronic coughs and rolde and other forms of throat and lung troubles. Creomu!*lon contains, in ad dition to creosote, other healing eie meats which soothe and heal the in flamed membranes and atop the irri tation and Inflammation, while the creosote goes on to the stomach, is absorbed into the blood, attacks the seat of the trouble and destroys the germs that lead to coneumptlon. Creomulsion 1s guaranteed satisfac tory In the treatment of chronic coughs and colds, bronchial asthma, i aturrha! bronchitis and other forms of throat and lung diseases and is ev elletit for building up the system after colds or the flu. Money re funded if any cough or cold, no mat ter of how long standing. Is not re lieved after taking according to direc tions Ask your druggist. Creomul sion Co , Atlanta. <!a. ^—I ^ ^SUNN ' SIDE UP lake Comfort.nor forget Vhat Sunrise ne^erfailed us^etr^^ __j _—----—-— -------— f— A few thoughts along the roadside. I-Htle bit of swamp covered with cattails, Feed to gather same. soak n roal olk and use for kindling morning tire. Also made good torches for boyish parades. Going through country where they spend lots of money to dig ditches to carry water to land, and a lot more money digging ditches to take that same water off the land. Sinclair pipe line costing millions is not carrying any oil Long trains of laden tank cars on nearly every s ding waiting for our special to pass. Man who smokes at *11 al ways smokes too much on thrips like this He also ests too much. As a people we are a lot of suckers. It, a western Nebraska (own one night last week we saw a motion picture shown In Omaha for the first time !e«s than six months ago. Omaha people paid from $1 to $2.50 to see it The small town people saw It for front 15 to 50 cents. Screening and music just as good in small town, too. Striking difference in demeanor of crowds visiting our spe rial In some towns much confusion, scrambling through ex hibit cars, and ill-mannered children making nuisances of them selves. Other towns crowds orderly and attentive, apprecia tive of opportunity afforded them, and children showing evi dences of lessons in good behavior. With no intention of mak ing invidious comparisons we want to say that the little city ef Bayard set an example of jttention, courtesy and appreciation. Speaking of the "melting pot,” the woman who was awarded the fine Holstein cow donated by business men of Bayard Is an American. Her husband Is a full blooded Jap anese named K. Okamoto. They live near Chimney Rock end operate a small farm in a highly creditable manner. We are not In favor of that sort of marriage, but after living out in the Irrigated section for six years we are frank to sav that we prefer the Jap as a farmer and neighbor to some other races we might name, and with whom we have had some experience In (he beet raising sections. Great piles of beets along the railroad at numerous sugar beer dumps Roads budly rut up by heavy hauling of beets. Faces broader than they have been for three years. Better spirit among all the people. Wonderful corn crop in section that most eastern Nebraskans think is no good as a corn coun try. Many Nebraskans woefully ignorant about their own stale. t'orn palare at Sidney revelation to pastsmoi who think thla l« still * cattle range country. Thousands of people in town despite disagreeable weather. First saw this section 40 years ago and wouldn't have given $10 for sll Cheyenne county. Haven't money enough to buy an acre of i*s best land now, and have more money now than I had on occasion of first visit nidn't have any then. By careful management have ju»t about managed to hold my own. 4\ IGG M. MAh PIN. I - —^ ty later on." At that I scz—"I wish j e success, sor." ’ "Magistrate (disgusted)—'Tes. and lie did open a jeweler s store in this vicinity and stole 17 watches. "New Policeman (after a pause)— ’Bcgorra, yer honor, tlie mon mav have been a thafe, hut he was no loiar.’ "—Edinburgh Scotsman. W hen in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Rooms—250 Bsilis—Rate? Vi to $3 B'-pHE old Spanish Missions vividly picture the romance and adventure of a by-gone age. The bidding of past and present, the green and golden orchards, the blue Pa cific and the radiant sunshine—these are part of the glorv and charm of Southern California. Go this winter on the de !n\e Igsflngelesiimited Lv. Omaha 9:40 a. m. Ar. Los Angeles 2.20 p. m. » Only J nights en route Four other daily trains direct to California and two to Denver with connections for California. Stop at beautiful, historic Salt Lake City. for handaomr. illntt rated hook lrl§. raaorvationa and full information atM: L B# "dor*. iJan’1 Af»nt. P«ti. D#ct . U. P 1523 St . Omaha Phcn# JncVson 5S?2 Atlanta a?14. «*r UoiC". 5*»t«on. 10th and Mmcy St'Mts Union Pacific vn , — --— - ■ .-am LUMBER Millwork and General Buildiag Material at 25% or More Saving to you. Don’t even consider buy ing until you have 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. 9tb and S Sti. Lincoln. N*k. BEE \\ VNT ADS BRING RESl ITS