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The Omaha Bee M O R N I N~G—E V E N I N G—S U N D A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. b. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief _Buatnaaa Managtr MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The lie* Is • member, !• exclusively entitled to the us* for republication of nil news dispatches credited to it or not otherwleo credited in this paper, and also the local newt published herein. All rights of republication of our special dispatches ars also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation uudits, and The Omaha Bee's circulation is regularly audited by their organizations. _ Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha poatoffice under act of March S, 1879. BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch E-xchange. Ask for iti 1 nnn the Department or Person Wanted. ^ ^ laiillC 1 \JYJ\J OFFICES Main Offioe—17th and Farnam Chicago- -Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Seattle—A. L. Nietz. 514 I.eary Bldg. Lob Angeles—Fred L. Hall, San Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg, New York City—270 Madison Ava. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES \ DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year 16.00, 6 months 93.00, 9 months 41.76, 1 month 76c DAILY ONLY 1 year *4.60. $ months $2.7^ 8 months tl.tO, 1 month 75f SUNDAY ONLY 1 year 43.00. * months $1.76. * months 11.00, 1 month 60e Subscriptions outtide the Fourth postal zone, or 600 nuies Ironi C'-taha: Daily and Sunday. J1.00 per month, daily only, lie per month. Sunday only, 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES Morning and Sunday.1 month 86c, 1 week 20c Evening and Sunday...1 month 66c, 1 week 16a Sunday Only .. month 20c. 1 week »c V__ ■ - Gmaha Vhefc the^fcst is dt its Best RUNNING THE RAILROADS. Senator La Follette reached into his bag Mon day and pulled out his railroad speech for delivery in Omaha. This is the one he gets the best effects from. He has rehearsed it so often during the last twenty-five years that he can put it over blindfolded. Consequently its sentences flow trippingly from the tongue, and he makes it sound as if he really be lieved it. Does he really endorse what he says? His an nouncement that rates for transportation are out of joint is not a discovery on his part. The Omaha Bee has again and again discussed the inequalities And in some cases the injustice of existing rates— Always with a demand for their rectification. In the present situation, action must be taken by congress. Last December the senate committee on interstate commerce was reorganized by the La Follette group. Unable to elect La Follette chairman, they chose Smith of South Carolina. Before that committee was the message from the president, in which he recom mended entire revision of the existing rate structure. * * * What did the committee do in the way of reliev ing the situation? So far as legislation goes, the committee did absolutely nothing. Yet it was a La Follette committee. He could have had no more control of it had he been president twice over. If we are to judge his intentions by his actions, the only fair rule for determining a man's conduct, the conclusion is inevitable that he did not want any thing done. He was saving the railroads for a talk ing point in the campaign he was planning. * * * Senator La Follette approached the topic of gov ernment ownership with respectful caution. He does not propose, he said, to do anything rash or abrupt along these lines. He will study the situation care fully, here and abroad. In Europe and Canada. We suggest they include Australia and South America, and Mexico, which is conveniently accessible If transportation in America were on the basis of that in Europe, our national life would be exactly in the same plight as that of those for whom we have made such sacrifices Europe’s greatest problem today is transportation, and the service is worst in those countries where the government owns the railroads. In Canada hundreds of miles of track were torn up during the war, and have not been replaced. The number of men employed in the service, however, has been almost doubled. Stockholders in Canadian companies taken over by the government receive their dividends, but out of the Dominion’s general fund and not from earnings. The only piece of rail road track owned by the Canadian government which is earning as much as its keep is that part which lies wholly within the United States. Australia has three state-owned railroad systems, those of Queensland, New South Wales and Vic toria. Each state adopted its own gauge, in order that the others might not use its rolling stock. Con sequently freight passing from Queensland to Vic toria has to be unloaded and reloaded twice, from Brisbane to Melbourne for example, a slightly longer haul than from Omaha to Chicago. How long could American business be carried on in that fashion? • * * The senator’s estimate of railroad valuation is on a par with his claim of certain election. No more definite basis supports it. Capable and trustworthy men have estimated the physical valuation of rail road property, based on current costsj at more than $22,000,000,000. The I. C. C. allows a tentative evaluation of $18,500,000,000 for rate fixing pur poses. And these bases are surely as dependable as those conjured up by La Follette. The senator paid a high compliment to Senators Norris and Howell for their stand on the transporta tion question. This stand The Omaha Bee has often referred to. In many respects it is in line with what we have contended for. But the fact remains that Senator La Follette had ample opportunity to pro ceed in congress to recast the rate structure, to amend or repeal the Esch-Cummins act, and to do a great many things he says should be done. Instead of proceeding on direct lines, with the support of a committee organized in his interests, he did nothing. • • • For the benefit of all industry, whether of agri culture or others, the present rate system of the railroads should be revised. This may not be done by horizontal cuts on any group of commodities, but must be with due regard to the interests of all, and not for the particular benefit of any. A return to the divided control of state commissions means the Te-establishment of the confusion that existed when forty-odd states and the I. C. C. were making sched ules, with their conflicts and inequalities far more ghastly than any now complained of. These matters are not to be disposed of in a mo ment, by any agency. We submit in all confidence that were Senator La Follette to devote as much at tention to an effort to reconstruct as he puts forth In his effort to break down, he would be far more helpful than he is. Just now, and for two years last past, at least, he has merely been an obstructionist. Full of promises he knows he will never be called on to redeem. Willfully neglecting his opportunities to cive relief MR. BRYAN SHEDS TEARS. Evidently Bryan fW. J.) does not share the con fidence that Bryan (C. W.) expresses with regard to the vote in Nebraska. Else why does Brother Bill, tears coursing down his time-furrowed cheeks, plead with fervor to Nebraskans that they do not go back on Brother Charlie? “Where,” asks Brother Will, “did any republican ever establish a municipal coal yard'.’” We can not answer, but are we to take it that ’because Bryan (C. Wr.) when he was city commis sioner of Lincoln entered the retail coal business that he thereby qualified to hold the high office of vice president, with a possibility of becoming president? Bryan (W. J.) refers to the fact that Bryan (C. W.) saved the gasoline users of Nebraska over $400,000 this year by reducing the price of gasoline. How in heaven’s name did any act of Charles W. Bryan affect the price of gasoline, either wholesale or re tail? In 1920 a little gasoline price war was precipita ted in Omaha, but did not spread to the state, al though Brother Charles talked grandiloquently about what he was going to do. Then, in face of the gov ernor, the gasoline producers put the price back to where it was. Months later the war broke out again in Omaha, brought about by the “muny” station. Slowly it spread to Lincoln, and a few other places. Then users of gasoline besieged Governor Bryan, pleading that he make good his oft-expressed de termination to sell gasoline in the name of the state. His answer was a one-pump station at Sixth and South streets in Lincoln. How ludicrous this gesture was is shown by the fact that when the governor came home from the New York convention he found his “state” filling station had disposed of some 600 gallons of gasoline, while uptown stations were sell ing thousands. Also, that the “state” price was 15 cents while the “trust” was selling at 13 cents per gallon. We should be disappointed in Nebraskans if they allow themselves to be wheedled or cajoled into vot ing for Bryan (C. W.) under any pretext. It cer tainly would be the height of absurdity to vote for him because he ran a municipal coal yard in Lin coln or that he brought down the price of gasoline. He had about as much effect on the selling price of gas in Nebraska as he did in New England, where a general cut went into force not long after it did in Nebraska. A QUERY IN VERSE. In these days of elections by minority votes the good citizen who either “has no time,” or otherwise fails to vote, would do well to read the verses presented herewith: You say your taxes are too high. But do you vote? About extravagance you sigh. But do you vote? How long? you wall, must we endue This state of things which keeps us poor? How long? I do not know, I’m sure; But do you vote? The lights are bad. the streets a mess; But do you vote? Your indignation you express, But do you vote? You say the Bosses rule the show. That Graft Is reaching high and low. And doubtless all you say Is so, But do you vote? You growl at rotten Politics, But do you vote? You howl at Bosses and their tricks. But do you vote? 'Au say, O Decent Citizen, (We’ve heard you, time and time again): "We want things run by Business Men!’’ But do you vote? Unless you do (I wonder do you?) You've got Just what Is coming to you. —Berton Braley. The citizens to whom this query is directed are both men and women. Signs are not lacking in Omaha that this year will be in truth, The Year of the Big Vote. But while we are on the subject—are YOU reg istered? Are YOU going to vote? Might be a good idea to mark your calendar, to make sure. If you are not familiar with registration rules Call up, The Editor, The Omaha Bee, AT. 1000. “TRUE WORDS, THEM.” Very few persons who heard the La Follette speeches at the Auditorium on Monday night but were impressed by the solemn truth of one of the utterances. “I don’t think,” said each speaker in turn. To get the fact over to his hearers he repeated the as sertion, "I don’t think.” And then he proceeded to demonstrate that he does not think. What each of those speakers will find out in due season is that the voters are thinking. The more they contemplate the situation the less likely they are to follow the lead of the man who publicly shouts, “I don’t think.” Notice that Clem Shaver figures the democratic national committee will have to get by on $750, 000. That is enough to demonstrate that the New York convention really was a total loss. The "V ankton bridge is another bond between South Dakota and Nebraska, and may there never he anything between the two states but the Missouri river. A Nebraska teacher who sticks for science hnR just won a suit against a board of trustees who wnnt Genesis undiluted. We will get to a decision yet. Bryan (W. J.) is still pleading for the man he said was unfit to be nominated. “Rattling Robert” is more than peeved. He is perturbed. Homespun Verse —By Omaht'i Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie_ THE BETTER WAY. One has requested that I any Which seems to me the better way— Shall life be tnkerl for life spent, Or shall It be Imprisonment?— Shall evermore the hard, cold bar* Deny the freedom of the stars, Association and the bliss \ That make a goodly world of this? Sometimes our laws look strange to me; - 1 think we doubt eternity. And the old faith that watchful Ood Knows every man who treads the eod, And will upon Redemption Day Make every guilty mortal pay. And from those who have failed him draw More than regard for written law. It seems to me It would be best To shut the murderers who've confessed, Or who've been branded by disgrace. In some remote, remindful place, - And let them live their lonely yeare Repenting not or eheddlng tears. And when existence they hsve trod, Let them go forth to answer (lod ------------'N Some Folks Do Go to the Strangest Places for Their Health , ____ " I I [ . -> Letters From Our Readers All letters must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Communi cations of 200 words and less, will be given preference. ^_____y A Government by the People? Omaha—To the Kditor of The Omaha Bee:']f it is a fact that a man can poll three times as many votes as his nearest competitor, In the elec tion of president, and can poll over the sum total of all of his competi tors combined and still not he elected, then the United States of America has no more of a government by the people than has Russia. The fact that the people of the United States had little to say about their own affairs was almost proven when the Mellon tax bill came before the last session of congress. But now when a large majority of voters In the United States cannot elect their own president It Is high time Ameri cans gave up this falacy of believing they are the land of democracy. They had better by far return under the British king, where no pretense what ever is marie about who rules for al most anyone over school age knows that the king la merely a figurehead and that the house of lords rules the empire with a hand of steel, It would better, by far, extend this rule to cover the United States than to go on kidding the people with any more Idea of self government when a small group of men like I.a Follette tacked by a powerful foreign press can set aside the will of a majority of pen pie and throw the election Into con gress where they are apparently In dependent of the people's will. Some one has said it is a matter of Coolldge or chaos. It Is worse than that. It Is Coolldge or disaster and if the people of the United States have no better sense than to vole for disaster then they ran hardly blntne any one but themselves If they get it, . OXF, M HO KNOWS Religion In the 1‘tiblic Schools. Albion. Neb/—To the Icjitor of The Omaha Bee: Is It not queer when so much Is being done In the public schools and colleges 'to undermine Christianity that the people—some of them—are so afraid of allowing the reading of the Bible in the public schools? Mr. Frank Martin says: "There Is a religious atmosphere In the Sunday school that is entirely missing in the public school.” Then Is it not time the windows were open en and the atmosphere of tho public schools purified? The public school has our children three-fourths of their waking hours. Have we a right to send them all that time to a place where the religious "atmosphere Is entirely missing?' The Sunday school lias but a feu hours In a year to give the children religious instruction, less than a week. The home plants the seed as best It may, and very often the school plucks It up ns soon as It Is sprouted. Giving to tho children -—-N Abe Martin v i Whtthrr n younjr couple quarrels or not, th' Kiel has t’ make up after ever’ kiss. If we’d Rivo a proapee tive voter a nickel ciRar t’uay he’d Rit out an’ work aRainst us, (Copyright, 1*!4 ) J chaff Instead of whenl while we, like the Gadarines, beseech the Master to "depart'’ and leave us in peace to feed the swine; in other words, to ■ xi ite envy, rivalry and Jealousy and to declare as truth what scientists say "may he" so. Mr. Martin tells us also that ’ Re ligion to he effective must be admin istered with a goodly nmount of mys tery." I do not agree with him. The Christian religion la a living, driving power, not a mysterious dream. It is not to he put on on Sun day morning and taken off before school time Monday morning, but to be lived day by day. This Idea of a Sunday and home religion Is a curse to the nation. How often you meet men who in church and in then homes are to ail appearance Chris tians, but in their business or political life are crookeder than a brace and bit. Why? Iterause we sre creatures ’ f habit, and the children, who have no thought of their duty to God or their fellow men for five days, per haps gix out of seven, will not he apt to think about It when grown. J’oor lawyer, who thinks the hurl's Flush Your Kidneys Occasion ally by Drinking Quarts of Good Water N’o man or woman can make a mistake by flushing the kidneys oc regionally, says a well known author ity. Too much rich food creates a< Ids which clog the kidney pores so that they sluggishly filter or strain only part of the waste and poisons from the blood. Then you get sick. Rheumatism, headaches, liver trou ble, nervousness, consultation, dizzi ness, sleeplessness. Madder disorders often come from sluggish kidneys. The moment soil feel a dull ache In th« kidneys or your hack hurts, or if tite urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sediment. Irregular of passage, or attended by a sensation of aeald lng, begin to drink water In quauti tles; also get about four ounces of .Tad Salts from any reliable pharmacy and take a tnhlespoonful In a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys mny then act fine. This famous salts Is made from the sold of grapes and lemon Jtilre. combined with llthla, and has been used for yearn to help flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to actlvl Iv, also to help neutralize the acids lit the system so they no longer cause Irritation, thus often relieving bllld tier disorders. Jnd Salts Is Inexpensive and enn not Injure; makes a delightful effer vi scent ( llthla water drink, which everyone can take now and then to help keep the kidneys clean and the blood pure, thereby often preventing serious kidney complications. Tty sll means have your physician examine your kidneys at least twice a year. i1 . ..- ' —. NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for Sept., 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .73,340 Sunday .73,865 Does not include returns, left ovets. samples or papers spoiled in printing and itu ludes no special aales or free circulation of any kind V. A BRIDGE. Cir. Mgr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of Oi tober. 1924. W H. QUIVF.Y. (Seal) Notaty Public Scribes and Phartsees disapproved of | t and its Author. The Ten Com mandments, too. Dear! dear! too aad, since they are the foundation stones of all law. We do not exclude history from our schools, lest a demo cratic or republican teacher might in fluence the pupils to view matters from their different standpoints. Then why deny our children the Bible, the "lamp to their feet," for such a flim sy reason? God has said: "My word shall not return unto Me void, hut as the rains and the snow cometh down from heaven, and returneth not again, but watereth the earth, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so My word shall accomplish that where unto I have sent it." It needs no in terpreter. Bet the children have a course in Bible study, as they have in any other branch .and they will find some one with whom to discuss it. never fear. Why not give Jesus the same opportunity we give Darwin" He says, spiritual and material psssnees will not mix any better than Know Omaha ” Omaha—America’s Third City in Public Parks • Nestling among §he wooded slopes of Omaha, and connected with 35 miles of winding boulevards, are 1,400 acres of beautiful public parks. Omaha is the third city in the United States for its population in the acres of land devoted to parks. These splendid parks with their playgrounds, golf courses, tennis courts and bathing beaches make Omaha a delightful city in which to live. Omaha's parks are attracting mor? people to make their homes among us. As Omaha and Nebraska grow, the Bell System must spend about three-fourths of a million dollars each year for new telephone equipment to provide for the increased demands for service in this state. To do this, vast suras of money must be obtained from investors constantly. More than 500,000 people in all walks of life are already financially interested in the business. We shall be pleased to have you, also, as an investor. Any telephone employee will gladly give you full information about Bell System stock or bonds, or telephone our Manager, JA ckson 2765. As Omaha prospers, the telephone industry will progress. Therefore, we are interested in Omaha s future and strive to provide reliable se.rvice at the lowest possible cost consistent with reasonable wages to employees and a fair return on the money invested in the business. NORTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM One Folic § - One Sy»tem - I nirentai Service ' SUNNY SIDE UP lake Comfort.nor forget 9hat Sunrise ne\>erfailed u.S^ _/ V_ ■ — r If there are any sour, dyspeptic, complaining men and women reading The Bee, we would have them meet W. *6 Overholser of Furnas county. And Mrs. Overholser especially Mr. and Mrs. Overholser homesteaded in Furnas county nearly 40 vears ago. They have experienced all the hardships of the pioneers. And last August a hall storm ruined their wheat and corn crop, entailing a loss of not less than $6,000. Are they whining and complaining? They are not. They are happy and taking their loss ns something unavoidable. They have gone through that sort of thing several times, hut have never lost their courage and fnlth. To them 13 children have been horn, now happily married and all just like their mother and father, happy, optimistic and Industrious. If anybody In this neck o’ the woods has a light to com plain It Is Father and Mother Overholser. but they don't. Life looks good to them, and they have faith. On election day Father and Mother Overholser and a whole flock of sons and daughters and sons In-law and daughters-in-law will go to the polls, and every one of them will vote for Coolldge and Dawes. Nebraska needs more men and women of the faith and courage and optimism of this splendid pioneer couple. Members of the We Knew Him When club will please shove along and make room on the bench for Fletcher Newton Merwln, editor and publisher of the Beaver City Times Tribune for 40 years or more. Newspapers have romc and gone in Beaver City, manv of them started for the Role pur pose of Running Fletch Out, but he is still there, prosperous and happy. One son is postmaster, another ts his business manager and associate, and another is a lieutenant commander in the navy. Memliers of the club will please stand at salute as Fletch jo^ns the band. John Q. Holmes, T'nited States game warden, inspected the train at Orleans to ascertain If game laws were being violated. The only game he found Was a game of pinochle and the train was given clean hill of health. Holmes says fatalities among ducks In northwest Nebraska has been due to impregnation of alkali in many of the lakes. A prehistoric tooth found In a sandpit near Beaver City was on exhibition when our train pulled in. The molar is about three Inches one way by two and a half inches the other, a part of the process is with the tooth. It might have belonged to a cow weighing about 16 tons. The next large*t tooth within our recollection was one we had while on a fish ing trip In Canada, 60 miles from the nearest dentist. Solemn Initiation services were held at McCook the other night, and Superintendent Macl^ren and Trainmaster French werp taken into the Order of the Yellow Dogs. Bull Train Kennel No. 606 now has a membership of 32, Including college professors, railroad attorneys and transportation officials, newspaper men and dairy experts. A tri-state convention will be called for Omaha during the coming holidays and delegates will he present from Nebraska, Colorado and Iowa. What is needed in this section of Nebraska !s a banquet committee whose members know a good brand of cigars when they see it. Speaking of politics, which we have been instructed not to do in this department, we opine that all efforts to keep southwestern Nebraska farmers discontented until after elec tion day have proved futile. WILL M. MAUPIN. •-J *■ _* I 3il and water. Then of what use are | they? If our "material knowledge" doesn’t teach us how to live better, or our spiritual knowledge does not teach us to live ltetter, why strive foreith er? Rut both are essential to a well rounded life. Then why not give them equal chance, or If one must have a preference, why not let it be the most important? KKLEN S. WATSON. W hen in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Rooms—250 Baths— Rate? $1 tc $3 tmmmLt ri i m I BLANKETSI Large Assortment Jj REAL BARGAINS 1 Priced From S 95c to $6.951 Scott Omaha Tent I and Awning Co. f§ 15th and Howard H Oppoaite Auditorium | Boo Want Ad* Produce Keault*.