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*• V-N The Omaha Bee I r ___ M O R N I N G—E V E N 1 N G—S UNDAY THE BEE PUBLISHING CO . Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President I * BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER. Editor in Chief Business Manager ■ « MEMBER OK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ^ The Associated Press, of which The Bee is n member, k is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of alt t 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 1 also reserved. J' The Omnia Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of 5‘ Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, t and The Omaha Bee’s circulation is regularly audited by J their organisations._ s , Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908. at Omaha postoffice, undei act of March :i. 1H79. J BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for a f lnnn the Department or Person Wonted. ^ _ lantlc 1 * OFFICES Main Office—17lh and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. I.os Angela—Fred !.. Ball, San Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—Fred L. Hall. Sharon Bldg. New York City -270 Madison Avenue * Seattle—A. L. Nielz. SB Leary Bldg. a ------— 2 MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES « DAILY AND SUNDAY » j year *6.00. G months *3.00. 3 months $1.76, 1 month 76c * DAILY ONLY .. i year *4.50, 6 months $2.75. 3 months $1.50. 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY 1 vear *3.00. G months $1 75. 3 months $1.00. 1 month 50c IC Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or GOO * miles from Omaha; Daily and Sunday, $1.00 per month; ,J daily only. 76c per month; Sunday only. 60c per month. CITY SUBSCRIPTION RATES 4 Morning and Sunday.1 month 86c. 1 week 20c IX Evening and Sunday.1 month 65c. 1 week 15c * .Sunday Only .I month 20c. 1 week 5c ^--' *' , - - - - I OmdhaVliei& fhe^fest is at ><s lles| - * » ■ IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. Naturally enough, attention in the main has ; been given to national politics and candidates in '2 the campaign so far. We must not forget, however, 1 that certain local offices arc to be filled, and that » <bese are entitled to consideration. Douglas county ,2 voters will be asked to send senators and representa 2 t^ves to the legislature. To select a clerk of the 2 district court and a county defender. To choose a * oounty assessor, and to select two members of the Board of County Commissioners. * Members of the legislature should be chosen » with due regard for the fact that Adam McMullen ‘ is to be the next governor, and that it will be for the benefit of the entire state to have a legislature 5: in harmony with the governor. Omaha no longer is Required to go to Lincoln to get permission to at * tend to her own business. She now enjoys home 2 fule. and so is not at the capitol seeking special at » Mention at any time. Omaha folks are deeply con i cerned in the great issues that affect the entire state. Taxation is quite as live a topic in Omaha as in the smallest village. Home owners here are just as alert * to the necessity for economy as is any farmer. There “ fore, while having no special axe to grind, the voters i Of Omaha and Douglas county are interested in the * road-building program, the development of the re sources of Nebraska, and the conservation of all the state’s interests. For this reason it is essential that i lhen of experience and capacity be sent to the legis » lpture. it- • * + * V * » J I John W. Cooper, candidate for the state senate . from the Seventh senatorial district, is one of the I veterans of the body. His service has eminently » fitted him for the work of the lawmaker. His record J has been good in all regards. Senator Cooper is '* much stronger on performance than he is on prom X* jses. We heartily commend him to the voters of his ; district. J John W. Robbins, candidate for the senate from £ the Sixth district, is also an experienced member of ** the upper house at Lincoln. Familiar with the de Z taijs of work in the body, sincere and industrious, £ he, too, has an honorable record of performance, i* and deserves to be re-elected. * T. B. Dysart. from the Fifth, and William N. T Chambers from the Fourth, have served in the house t. of representatives, and therefore are possessed of i experience that will be valuable when they reach » the senate. Charles W. Hoye, nominated in the * Third district, has the confidence of the voters of his * district, and his presence on the ticket gives assur }. ance that the Douglas county delegation in the next senate will be solidly republican. * * * * f The nominees for the house of representatives 5 from the twelve districts in Douglas county arc £ clean, outstanding men. Among them are some who £ have had legislative experience, and others, Richard * itood of the 19th district, for example, are young Z n^en just making an entrance to public service. » These were chosen at the primaries, and are surely i entitled to the support of the voters at the polls. In t the nature of things, it is not likely that i solid re 'i publican delegation will go fo Lincoln from Doug * las county next winter. Some of the representative \ districts are overwhelmingly democratic in their nor *. mal vote, and these will probably send democrats. J But the majority from this county will be in line £ with the policies outlined by McMullen in his cam I paign. Robert E. Smith is a candidate to succeed him * self, and nobody has any idea that “Bob" will break j' his record and accept the short end of the count at thi polls. He has served many years as clerk of the J coiirts, and has established himself as a competent, £ courteous and obliging officer, a record that com * mends him to the voters. . Sam Grcenleaf, long experienced in tax matters ' because of his service in the office of county clerk, j - fhe republican nominee for county assessor. His * proven ability is bis best recommendation for the » place, and we believe the voters will agree that Sam is the man for the job. £ John N. Baldwin again seeks the onerous and * honorable job of being public defender. “Jack" has 1 made good in this place, and ought to be re-elected without any doubt. 4k *. * * * 4* Thomas Falconer is candidate for county com Z miisioncr from the Third district, with a record of » gal merit for service oil the Board of Education J arid ns city commissioner to recommend him. Fal !>'. cuner was chosen by the voters from among n nota 4' hie group of candidates at the primary election. '7, This may be accepted ns an augury of his victory at the polls next week. He is capable, experienced, '<• and should he elected. Hurry G. Counsman, running in the Fifth dis * trict for county commissioner, is just completing r his term of office as county assessor with a record r that any man might be proud of. In all the history " of the office it has never had a cleaner administra f ton than during the years it has been under | Cour,smart's direction. Home owners know and ap preciate his particular efforts in their behalf. He, Toe. deserves to be given the plr.ee ho : ■ ok: on the county board, whore he can go on with his good work. All in all, the ticket presented by the republicans this year will stand close inspection with its chief opposition. Seldom has such a group of candidates been offered. They have made a vigorous canvass, and have added much to the certainty of a real re publican victory in Douglas county this fall. NOT ON THE TAX LIST. Robert Marion La Follette, reading the published income tax returns, pounced on certain items as positive proof of his assertions of all sorts of fraud are true. Why, he asks, does a man whom every body knows is a millionaire, not show up with a millionaire’s lax rating? Several very obvious an swers might be made to “Bob’s” inquiry, but none will suit his purpose. We await with interest his reaction to the information that the names of cer tain well known wealthy persons do not show up at all on the tax list. Take J. Ogden Armour, for example. He looms high when the soap-box orator begins to call the roll. In searching the tax list at Chicago, the reporters failed to find his name. Nor did they find that of Edward F. Swift, A. Watson Armour, Edwin Mor ris. or the Levy Mayer estate. The big men of the “packing trust” missed out on the income tax. For the very good reason that they had no taxable in come. One phase of the game that gets little attention is that now and then the law of averages works. J. Ogden Armour alone is credited with a loss of $30, 000,000 during the taxable year. Wilson & Co., packers, are in financial trouble. The Swifts and Morrises and Mayers all had to pocket heavy losses. Has any street corner resounded with cries of sym pathy and appeal foj these meat packers? Did the reds shed tears whea the news that the Romanoff family had been butchered was told? It is just a tragedy of business that each of these supposedly wealthy men fell into a bad deal and lost more money than they made. Their names are not on the tax list. Others may have similar rea- I sons for their returns being low. La Follette could j not tell his hearers that, though. They would not ' believe him. USE AND ABUSE OF THE ROORBACK. Voters of the United States are accustomed to the appearance of the roorback. No set date is fixed for the flight of this bird, but he usually shows up anywhere from a week to an hour before the closing of the polls. Sometimes he flies singly, sometimes in flocks. He can be determined by the zigzag course course he takes, and the raucous noise he makes. Sometimes it is a whisper, sometimes a shout, but always it is discordant. Those who set the roorback afloat feel that his song, however unpleasant it may be, will get response from the breast of some wavering voter. ' They calculate that no matter how absurd the bird may be in appearance, he will frighten somebody. If only enough can be put afloat a considerable group of votes may be affected. That is why the roor back never flies until just about time to close the campaign. It would not do to release him too soon, for somebody might capture him and find out that he is like a prairie owl, principally feathers. The use and abuse of the roorback are so nearly alike that it is not easy to tell one from the other. Fortunately, voters are wary as a rule, and about • his season of a presidential year are on the lookout for the expected visit of the unsavory birds. Omaha is getting a fair dose of them just now. Old-timers get amusement out of the experience, and the un wary are advised to use their common sense. That is the only known antidote to the bite of the roor back. It works every time. Just watch him closely, and his absurdity will be plain. A NEEDED RULE. The traffic problem in Omaha has reached the stage where something more than a traffic cop at street intersections is needed. Due regard for safety of life and limb imperatively demand a more mod ern system of regulation. Other cities have tried out the "arterial street’’ system and found it very satisfactory. An arterial street is one that may not be crossed by any vehicle without first having come to a full stop. The wisdom of rfUch a rule will be at once ap parent. It would work no hardship, but would safe guard life and property. Better lost a moment than to spend eternity. La Follette’s Omaha speech, in which the world was told that he does not intend to buy the railroads light away, is being widely used by the democrats in the east. Bob never did intend to take over the railroads, he just talks that way. That is Victor Berger’s idea, and he is backing Bob to get a toe hold on government. “Explosive Medicines” is a subject discussed by the Literary Digest between straw stacks. It prob ably has reference to the kind of stuff some people take for a cold these Volstead days. Clem Shaver has set November 1 as the "Demo cratic Victory Day.” On the following Tuesday the voters will make it a Coolidge victory day with due emphasis on the Coolidge. Could there possibly he any connection between a failure to file a personal tax return and the publi cation of a letter more than eight years old—if it ever w>as written? Val Peter will probably be able to withstand the onslaught of the Steuben society. He has had some experience in such matters. Cervantes laughed chivalry out of Spain, but it remains to be seen whether Bill White can laugh the Kluxers out of Kansas. The mere fact that the new dirigible is a gas hog will explain why it has been christened Los Angeles. Brookhnrt admits he will carry every county in Iowa hut one. Why not make it unanimous? A lot of “duds” are being dropped by a des perate party now. October certainly was a good month for Ne braska. r Homespun Verse —By Omaha's Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie _— OI K KTKEN'tSTII BETRAYS OUR WEAKNESS. Our strength betrays our weakness! We are prone To build our mystic mansions In a day— To (ling unto the visions which display Assiduous rapidity our own. Wo care not that for haste we need alone, Hut madly tread the unfamiliar way. I'nlll I ho domes Imaginary sway, And suddenly to nothingness nro thrown At length the strength that fashioned them defies Futility like one who has from slumber roino To lift Ids head, and open wide hl“ eyes, And bathe them with divine eollyrlum | And through th«) lia/.e of past Imprudence sew j Achievement's soli 1 ire duality. _ - — - ■ 1 II . I N Would Knocking Out the Traffic Cop Speed Up Traffic 01 Just Pile It Up at t e Intersections? ! -.1 Letters From Our Readers All letters must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Communi cations ol 200 words and less, will be fiven preference, k ___ J Safety First With (solids*. Omaha—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: The slogan should be, "Safe ty First, Coolldge," and not "Cool Idge of Chaos;" nor "Common Hon esty. Davis." Or "The People, Ea Follette." We know what safety first means; we have to guess what common honesty means in democratic hands, and "the people" is a chimera only too well known. Senator Borah says, "It was not long after Calvin Coolldge was made president of the United States until he announced he man have economy and then more economy. It was not long until he announced that, so far as the build ing of bureaus was concerned, his opinion was that It ought to cease. To mv mind It made one of the great issues of the 20th century ami it pre sented a problem of government that no other president—and I do not wish to speak disparagingly of those who have gone before—had the courage to rise and stand upon. He vetoed hill after bill, popular bills, hills which might have drawn to him hundreds of thousands of votes, bills which, ns a mere politician, he would have signed. Ho vetoed them because he proposed to stand between the people of the country and those who were attempting to make unjust and un necessary demands upon the people. "And whatever you may do in this campaign you cannot take that issue fuvav front Calvin Coolldge." FRANK MARTIN. Correcting History. Gibbon. Neb.—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: In Will Mftupln's page of Sunday we notice his comments on the “car lines” of a a few of Ne braska’s towns and winds up with these remarks, "Kearney never had horse cars," and then speaks of the days when she boasted of electric cars. We wish to say we knew Mr. Maupin when he ran a little paper In North Bend; we knew his father when he was preaching in North Bend, and know Mr. Maupin wished to he fairly aecurato In his comments. But we can assure him Kearney did nave "horse-drawn cars,” for we have ridden them. In 1889 wo helped raise it field of corn Just north from the present fair grounds and have ridden within a few rods of the corn field In "cars drawn hyoid Dobbin." We are not quite as old as Mr. Maupin, but we happened to be In Kearney, tnn\ hap, Just a little In advance uf Mi Maupin, and though the "horse-drawn cars" were, to say the least, crude af fairs measured with present stand aids, dilapidated harness in some In stances, and horse, too, In some eases had the appearance of at. least know Ing better days, and It appeared to us a shnmo that wo boarded the things under those conditions. How Abe Martin jl—--' “Ther may bo more cfllciency in conductin' business than ther ever wuz, l»ut we think must concerns still waste too mueh money on cir culars. Some folks sootn t* know more ubout Mars than they do about rankin' a livin’. iItfht, i ever they were there for that pur pose, and we quietly looked out the window while old Dobbin trudged along the uneven footpath. O. J. WALKER. La Folletie’s Soul. Omaha—To the Editor of The Omaha Bee: In campaign times it is known to be rather hard to keep cool. This year, as often before, the cam palgn has been carried on with all Intentional perversion of facts, mis quotations. ridicule. Insinuations, etc. The spiritual health of the masses cannot but be injured by such small ness. And that smallness of soul dwells not only In the less Intelligent soap-box orators, hut also In the more Intelligent and prominent politicians —yea, even In such a man as La Fol lette. At the Adultorlum La Follette took the name of Jesus to ridicule his op ponent. Coolidge. Why should he es pecially use that name to thereby ridicule an opponent? Was It the lack of other material that caused this ridicule? or, was It to ridicule our president's religion? I will let La Fol lette answer. To me and many others such an action stands as a poor house certificate of his soul and mind. There cannot have l>een any other ultimate purpose except to ridicule our president's religion. Otherwise, why should In a campaign speech the name of Jesus In a sneering way be combined with that of Coolidge? I draw- tho conclusion that, known or unknown to La Follette himself, there dwells In him that bolshevik spirit, which In Russia has tried to eliminate all religion, and so carried r ^ Dyspepsia is but a ha*y memory to all those high livers who learned how to eat heartily of all the good things of the table by following meals with STUARTS Dyspepsia Tablets No mors r*«*l no*. anur twine*, hnirt hum. lomnoa. naunn nor other *uch d» ueoa due to Indication. You may ont froelr of pie. rheea, pkklc*. milk, fried e,f». hacon. onion*, nuuit end puck—heat* »nd the** tablet* *!»»>•* *ave you from di*tr*a hernute they fir* theetomach th* »Ut*J|neeflert *i in health and t at th* atomnch by nldinf dtfaUun. AT ALL DRUGGISTS V_/ TYPEWRITERS ADDING MACHINES Every Make Lowest prices, easy terms. At tractive rental rates. Snvo money and get quality at All Makes Typewriter Company, Inc. 203 3. 18th St. AT 2413*2414 NET AVERAGE PAID CIRCULATION for Sept., 1924, of THE OMAHA BEE Daily .73,340 Sunday .73,865 Does not Include returns, lefi oven, aamples or papers spoiled in printing and Inc lodes no ap>*rial aales or (i»a circulation of any kind. V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mfr. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of October, 1924. W. It. QU1VF.Y, (Seal) Notary Public the Russian people to untold miseries. With it man of such spirit at the helm of the government the consequences cannot tie other than chaos. Furthermore, it is an acknowledged fact that in the whole political his tory of the United States there has never been a more shameful and dis astrous influence in our public life than that of the liquor interests. Whole councils, legislatures and con grosses were bought. Hut against this infernal traffic that "Made Milwaukee Famous." the Wisconsin senator never lifted a finger, but used all his influence against the people who tried to rid the country of this political octopus. If the farmers' and laborers' homes are so dear to him. as he says, why did he not in hia usual way go on the warpath against this organ ized evil that, under its existence, de stroyed more homes than all the other institutions and influences together? And today the 'Wisconsin senator is getting his reward in form of the unanimous support of the greatest friends and supporters of the liquor interests. Among other reasons, this one should appeal to the men and women in America under no circum stances to support Fa Follettes po litical Interests. HENRY LINDEMAN. ( hides Mr. Mutz. Wahoo, Neb.—To the Editor of Tile Omaha Fee; [ see lit your pa per that the court has decided in fa vor of Mr. Mutz in the independent v».-y controversy. Mr. Mutz knows ceil that he not tarrying out the wishes "f the Orand Island convcn lion, when at that convention it was uecided that the Independent party would take no part in supporting] state candidates, and for Mr. Mutz to! BLANKETS Large Assortment REAL BARGAINS Priced From 95c to $6.95 Scott Omaha Tent and Awning Co. 2 15th and Howard Opposite Auditorium - . ---| Regular tailings from New York, I Soar on, Montreal. WEDNES DAY'S Fastest mail aervice ro Southampton and Cherlxjutg. SATURDAYS to Cobh Queen** i >wn . Loodonvlerry, Liverpool, uIihcv, Plymouth, I.o®«ioo and Hamburg. ANCHOR LIMBS Randolph fit IVtd>-ea Srrref*. CTik-mo. HI Tomorrow Alriqht IQ A vag*tabta la* aperient, add* ton* and vigor to and ajrtttm, th* app** tick and Bil o r r a c t a ! -the Old Block JUNIORS—Lilli, N?e LOna-third Ihe ragulardnse. M»d, of Min, fnirrrdirnta, thru candy Cnatad. For children and adntta. m SOLD OY YOUR ORUGQISTmmi 'sunn r side up Hake Comfort, nor forget . ghat Sunrise ne\/erfailed uS^er^ _/ - •— We .-hall vote against the proposed Sorensen amend.nent to the state constitution-twice if It were permissible^ Ve are averse to constitutional amendments as a ^n“'nr,lcu|n^v oh’ • inline itilt 11)0 proposed amendment is parncuiaiij noxious.' We know of but one submitted during lat. year, that we iloorecate so much. When we go to the polls to vote, ana we never miss an opportunity, we want .1° know MmwtMn* more about the candidates than merely their name*. 1 he me fact that Sorensen proposed the amendment that ^It to cause its defeat, but the amendment Is so vicious that should be killed without regard to Its proposer Time was when we would sit for two hours and listen to a political spellbinder, cheering our fool head off and everything we heard. Not so now. Information liable kind is easily available, and we prefer to Imbibe It whil* sitting in the quiet of our own room, smoking theL favoj't* pipe and propping our feet up on the library table. h always open to conviction, of course, but it is seldom that a political spellbinder shows up with evidence that he know* any j more about issues and policies than we think we know futility of arguing about polities dawned upon us quite a while ago Even before that we learned the futility of arguing with Lottie Clifford. Hence It is that of late years we have been moving along in an unruffled Bea. privately and publiclj. I We are moved to the above remarks by watching for * few moments while a fervent orator boosted for La l-ollettc on courthouse square the other day. Being somewhat tialned ln , the art of observation it was easy for us to see that the per sonnel of his audience changed three times in the .0 minute* of our observation. If every knocker voteH next Tuesday the possibility of minority government will be relegated to the limbo of things that were. , Notification has arrived to the efTeet that we have been put on the mailing list to receive the literature of the Near ^ East Relief organization. This merely means less rest for an already overworked receptacle for propaganda. It would seem that the people of the Near East are possessed of hollow iegs and a natural antipathy towards work. The Ohio man who caused IS deaths by selling denatured alcohol for beverage, has been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. There may be those who complain of the inade- I quacy of the sentence. They should possess their souls in oatience. Two years for that sort of thing would be far too short, but just think of the countless years that particular man is going to get his n after he has been planted. It is nobody's business who we vote for on election day. hut we take our friends into our confidence far enough to say that we shall NOT vote for any man who thinks this country j is going to hell, who insists that everybody but himself is dis honest, who wants to tear holes in the organic law. who train* with men seeking to destroy our form of government, who vio- j lates every known law of loyalty and political decency, and who makes his appeal to prejudices and passions And we Don't need to mention any names. WILL M. MAUPIN. j allow himself to be hoodwinked Into supporting othf'- candidates Is direct violation of the power given him at the Grand Island convention, even if the candidates were progressive. But Mr. Mutz surely knows that some of them are not of a progressive mind. Just sucn usurped power of this kind Is what destroy* confidence among '.be voting rat*sseo. I am at a loss to understand Mr. Mutz In this ma* ter. I? he has done so for private gain, he is dishonest; if he allowed himself to do it through clever talk of these candidates he is incompetent, but in either case he is not voicing the cutiraent of the Grand Island convention. FRED HERRICK. The Old Store and Modern Advertising The old, dilapidated business house of days gone by reminds us of the ad vertising of many firms today. There is just as much difference be tween the modern advertising message of today and the crude advertisements of twenty-five years ago as there is be tween the early merchandise house and the new, modern establishments of ( today. And modern engraving methods have done much to lend interest, attention, beauty and "pulling power" to modern advertising. Let us “dress up" your advertising mes- I sage with our clean, forceful cuts. Let « us help to make your advertising reflect the progressive, modern way of mer chandising. A phone call will bring a lot of new ideas in "dressing up" your advertising message. Phone ATlantic 1000 cL)he 0ee Snqra^ina i "Department—3 Ernest Sherer, Mgr. ^ _-_ i ■■IIIWI