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The Omaha Bee M O R N 1 N G—E V E N 1 N G—S U N P A Y THE BEE PUBLISHING CO.. Publisher N. B. UPDIKE. President BALLARD DUNN. JOY M. HACKLER, l Editor in < hief Business Manager MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press, of which The Bee is a member. Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper, and also the local news published herein. All rights of republieation of our special dispatches are also reserved. The Omaha Bee is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, the recognized authority on circulation audits, and The Omaha Bee’s circulatipn is regularly audited by their organizations. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1908, at Omaha postoffice, under act of March 8, 1879. | BEE TELEPHONES Private Branch Exchange. Ask for \ y i _. • innn the Department or Person Wanted. ^ * lanilC 1UUO * OFFICES Main Office—17th and Farnam Chicago—Steger Bldg. Boston—Globe Bldg. Los Angeles—Fred L. Hall, Snn Fernando Bldg. San Francisco—Fred L. Hall, Sharon Bldg. New York City—270 Madison Avenue Seattle—A. L. Nietz, 514 Leary Bldg. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES i DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 year $6.00, 6 months $3.00, 3 months $1.76, 1 month 75c DAILY ONLY 1 year $4.50, 6 months $2.75, 3 months $1.50, 1 month 75c SUNDAY ONLY 1 year $3.00, 6 months $1.75, 3 months $1.00, 1 month 50c Subscriptions outside the Fourth postal zone, or 600 miles from Omaha: Daily and Sunday. $1.00 per month; daily only, 75c 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 15c Sunday Only .1 month 20c, 1 week 6c k-—--y OraalidVhGfethe^st is at its Best HENRY CABOT LODGE. Of Henry Cabot Lodge it has been said that, "born to leisure, he chose to work.” His long and honorable career was one of industrious effort. He was possessed of ample means, and acquired cul ture that might have led to a life of luxurious case, but his New England breeding held him to the tradi tion of his race, duty. Duty to his country, to the race at large. It was not in politics alone that Mr. Lodge was Jsader. In letters he achieved distinction, and he might have won notice for himself in any line of effort. Public life appealed to him, and he began his career as moderator of the little town of Nahant, his birthplace and his home all his life. In 1882 he aspired to a seat in congress, but was defeated for the nomination. Four years later he was elected to congress, and begun the career that led him to such honorable height. After six years in the house he was made senator, being elected to succeed Henry L. Dawes in January, 1893. His present term of office would have expired on March 4, 1929. It was not merely by right of seniority that Sen ator Lodge was regarded as leader of his party in the senate. His intellectual endgwment justified his headship. His public service comprised a wide range of activity outside the legislative halls. His literary achievements were scarcely less extensive and ! equally notable. A scholar of high attainments, he , wrote of history authoritatively and entertainingly. As leader of the opposition he gained most no tice because of his amendments to the League of Nations pact which President Wilson had tied into i the Treaty of Versailles. The Lodge amendments i to that document were all adopted by the senate, and have been in effect if not in form approved by the great powers, members of the League. Current ' history has it that the utmost persuasion by demo cratic leaders was required to prevent President Wilson’s acceptance of the. Lodge views. Few in cidents in American history are more important or far-reaching than this struggle. Senator Lodge had the satisfaction of noting the approval given his i stand by the voters in 1920, although be could not ■ learn of the even more emphatic approval received 1 in 1924. A truly great American, Henry Cabot Lodge i filled a large place in the affairs of his time. His , life was spent in the service of his country, and his 1 great influence was always on the side he believed to 1 be the one in the right. As long as we have such I leaders as Lodge, little fear need be felt for the > safety of our institutions. i ---~ HIS MONUMENT A HUGE HOLE. A great blast, shattering a hole through eight feet of solid rock, almost 200 feet underneath the bottom of the Hudson, united the two ends of the l latest and greatest of traffic tunnels. For many i months the workmen have been steadily driving for f Ward the tubes from either shore, through all sorts , ‘fit formations and varying difficulties. Directed by * Ihe surest of engineering skill, when the final blast , was let off and the holes met, it was discovered that , la divergence of less than three-quarters an inch had I® be rectified. Such accuracy of execution in Itself would he a klgh tribute to the men who made and carried for ward the plans. The whole conception of the tun nel, with its varied features and devices for over coming difficult phases of modern transportation, Is a marvel even in these days of wonders. The pres tnce of deadly carbon monoxide gas, a result of the sse of the automobile, and its certain settling at the lowest point of depression, is one of the prob - lems dealt with. And all this came from the mind I of Clifford M. Holland, chief engineer of the proj ect. Holland had a bad heart. He knew it was like ly to give, out at any time. But he stuck to the job, (day after day, determined to get all done he could before he passed on. A short time before the last I hot was fired, and for which elaborate preparation had been made, Mr. Holland went to a sanitarium to rest. There he died, not knowing that his great t plan had actually been successful, but confident that i his calculations were sound. He did not get the * word from the workings, but he knew he had builded his own monument in the form of a huge hole under a mighty river, that will unite the metropolis with * the mainland. An honored place among great { builders is his, and the future will praise his work. ; NOT UNDER THE RED FLAG. * Norman Angell, viewing the great wave of con ' lervatism in America and England, tells his hearers i that each successive government will have more and * more of socialism in it. Robert Marion La Follettc says his crusade has just begun. William H. Green a rejoices in the vote for Coolidge, because he believes » it will make more communists. 1 And each Is wrong. Neither correctly divines the result of the election in the United States or in t England. On the surface one thing is as plain as • it can be made. The voters of neither nation want ! the sort of government socialism promises. Call it ' what you will, the dislike for socialism rests on the love of liberty. Fundamentally, socialism con templates regulation where now freedom exists. Speciously aimed at capital, it reaches down and grasps everybody, big nr little, rich or poor, strong or weak, in the clutch of a ruthless monster known as government. And Americans want to control their govern ment, not to be controlled by it. A mistake of the La Follette campaign, fatal in the end, was that he permitted the socialist organization to fasten onto his movement. All through the campaign true pro gressives who saw in La Follette the means of ex pressing a protest, found themselves busy explain ing they were not socialists nor sympathetic with the program championed by Berger, Debs, and their ilk. The La Follette vote may look impressive. It is well to keep in mind the fact, however, that Cool idge had 10,000,000 more votes than Davis, 14,000, 000 more than La Follette, and 6,000,000 more than the combined Davis and La Follette vote. In those figures should be read the answer of the peo ple to the socialists. Americans can see red, but when it comes to flags, they see only the Red, White and Blue. -1 “JIM” DRAIN. Introducing James A. Drain, commander of the American Legion. But despite his high office and the great respect that attaches thereto, thousands of Nebraskans will call him “Jim,” and hail him as one of themselves. For “Jim” Drain,” be it known, hawed and geed horses attached to a plow in Ne braska fields for several years. And for even a longer term he looked through the bars of a Ne braska bank window. Whatever “Jim” tackled he carried through to success. When he pulled up stakes and left Nebraska, heading for the Pacific coast, his friends wished him the success they knew he would win and deserve. He was made of the right kind of stuff. The same qualities that won him friends and success in Ne braska, won the same things on the coast. Commander James A. Drain, head of the Ameri can Legion, will receive a deservedly warm welcome in Omaha and Nebraska. But “Jim” Drain will re ceive a warmer one. A GIGANTIC BUSINESS. Few people, even those most familiar with Omaha, realize the immensity and importance of the hotel business to this city. There are several hotels of nationally known importance, and scores of hotels of lesser size and importance, and all give remunera tive employment to hundreds of men and women. Their aggregate payroll is enormous and exercises a helpful influence upon the business life of the metropolis. Their purchasing power is enormous, and they send millions through the channels of trade. ' • — One of the big factors in securing that Ameri can Legion convention for Omaha was the showing made of Omaha’s splendid hotel facilities. The local association of hotel men may always be depended I upon when there is constructive work to be done for Omaha and Nebraska. Taken as a whole the hotels of Omaha are to be counted as among the business factors that are con tributing in a real way to Omaha’s growth and pros perity. WHAT MAKES ANARCHISTS. Every well-balanced man and woman is in favor of curbing the reckless auto drivers. Every one ad mits the necessity for drastic action to insure safety of life and limb. On the other hand, criminal carelessness Is crimi nal carelessness, whether exhibited by a driver who works for wages or the intoxicated son of a mil lionaire. The demand today is for even-handed justice; the kind of justice that does not distinguish between rich and por. This demand is not met when a wage earning auto driver, the son of a wage-earning father, is sentenced to the penitentiary for man slaughter, while the intoxicated son of wealthy par ents is merely reprimanded and the father gives a fat check to the parents of the dead victim. That sort of justice has been handed out in this country so often that it may offer a partial explana tion of why there are so many people who have lost faith in the courts. A jury in the district court has provided another form of example to which the judges may call the attention of speeders. Instead of the victim of an avoidable accident, this is a speeder going to state’s prison. Magnus Johnson was short-carded at both ends. He ran against a better milker in Washington, and a better vote-getter in Minnesota. Isn't it about time for Mr. Bryan to retell the story of the drunken cowboy who was thrown out of the dance hall? Punishment for reckless auto drivers should con sist of something more drastic than a gentle tap on the wrist. York county citizens voted in favor of a county fair. This is getting back to first principles. Speaking of sorrowful sights, there is the cam paign headquarters of a defeated party. Any objections to making Rodman speaker? Hearing none, it is so ordered. There are several Thanksgiving days between now and November 27. Get your pen ready to sign a good check for the Community Chest. Among other things that proved vain was the Gush Fund. -*, Homespun Verse —By Omaha’* Own Poet— Robert Worthington Davie. _____ WE ARE FRIENDS AGAIN. We ara friends again. Our views Are dormant now; wo need not lose— But we shall gain ns we tread on While old years die and new years dawn. For long we’ve looked ehend to tills Decision and far-reaching bliss; We’ve watched for the days when wo Could plan and act with certainty. We did not all achieve our ends, But we may now again he friends, And leave the lesser losses to Oblivion, and start anew. For four long years shall calmness reign, And honest effort ho not vain: For four long years as brethren may We march along life's pleasant way. We are content for we desire Tranquility, and we aspire For good which over all descends \\ hen enemies again are friends | When Will We Use It for Prevention Instead of Cure? ] l ' ’ T " ' - - . «■ ! I I — Letters From Our Readers All letters must be signed, but name will be withheld upon request. Communi cations of 200 Vorda and less, will be given preference. V---J Anti-Prohibition Argument. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Oma ha Bee: On the editorial page of the Bee appears the query: "Will some opponent of capital punishment tell us what punishment will fit the crime of selling heroin to school children?” We fall to see connection between capital punishment and the selling of heroin, as the crime does not fit the punishment. Selling heroin Is no worse than selling bootleg liquor made of wood alcohol, to students. A good stiff dose of such llquop may blind Its victim for life, or do him ot her inestimable damage In other ways: while It takes many doses of heroin to convert a person Into an addict, a dose or two may do no particular harm. Instead of trying to remedy the effect, we should strike at the cause. Why do children buy heroin and polaon liquor? Who :s responsible for the system which allows the ped dling of these things? Did children buy drugs, narcotics, and lagttleg liquor, before prohibition or after'’ Let's be honest, and call the devil by his right name. Just who and what is responsible for the conditions which exist today and which are get ting worse Instead of better? When anyone aays that prohibition Is not doing the country Irreparable damage, he lies, whether he knows It or not. It Is full time we stopped being sentimental over the worn-out Idea of having “respert for law because. It happens to be a . constitutional amendment.” when the fact Is that we have no respect whatever for the Volstead act. If we are to go on claiming to be an Intelligent nation, we had better do something to deserve It. If we cannot protect our grow-1 ing generation from the evil effects of one of our constitutional laws, wo had better examine our capacity for government. The very best of both medical and legal authority aays that prohibition is wrong, yet a lot of us stiff necked fanatical minded busy bodies, insist that the law is func tioning and all is well. fine of the troubles with the human race Is that they have to he nearly killed before they realize there 1? any danger of death In any except old age (‘hlldren buy narcotics be cause they need them and because someone has taught them the use of drugs. But do boys and girls drink bootleg liquor because they nerd it. or because they want to show eon tempt for the lew? Do they have these conditions In foreign countries? Do they have as much crime? Do ve hear of rhlldren becoming blind ami Insane from the effects of poisonous liquor? Wo do not. Why, then, do wo not make an intelligent Investlra tion of conditions? Instead of two factions fighting one another—p.t jf "Martin | ' What's ^roin' 1' bp will lip, an' what huin’t is liable t’ bp, is a (rood, safe theory t’ go n. Gabo Pine, who did th’ claimin' fer I,a Kol Icttp in our county, is now pro motin' a fuel savin' furnace. lCop>rl*ht, nil > and dry—why don't they get together and compare notes .and see which is best for us: then leave it to the peo ple to decide. Jf the people want bootleggers and poison liquor, nar cotics and dope, let them say so by popular ballot; If not, the reverse, land settle the thing for good. Re move the cause and the effect be come nil. Capital punishment would he as much a deterant to a bootlegger or rope peddler as It is to a murderer. Which is to say. none. Punishment does not reach the seat or root of the disease; attempting to stop it does not cure. It must he stamped out like the bubonic plague. Prohobition is a bubonic plague In another form. Peddling dope Is one of its offshoots FRANK MARTIN. • -- I.eave It to Coolidge. Omaha.—-To the Kditor of The Omaha Ree: I note that Brother Al bert Kuhn has bowed his head to what he rails the supreme court of the American ballot. He forgot to institute the term ''intelligent." It was the Intelligent ballot that proved to be the supreme oourt In this elec tion and not the ballot of the Ameri can people. I .a Follette does not be hove in the supreme court, neither does he believe In the intelligence of the majority of the people, else lie would never have run on the platform which lie adopted. Brother Kuhn still has hopes that his "progressive" idol will have his turn nt the bat, but that Is an Illusion. We are getting back to common sense in more ways than i>olitics. We showed it in the way people supported our president. Mr. Kuhn has his nasty little dig at the president, which shows which way his mind runs. He "insists upon the reins being left in the hands of the advisers of Coolidge." If Brother Kuhn knew his A, R. Cs of politics ns well ns he would ha\e one believe, he would know that Mr. Coolidge has no "advisers." cvrn In Wall street. He will listen to ad vice and suggestion, and then prob ably remark about the weather or the state of some one s health, but so far ns ids having advisers stn h as fr OMAHA _ J; To Belter ^ Serve H manily | Get Well the CHIROPRACTIC Way Brother Kuhn would have us believe, there isn’t a grain of truth in it. He likely talks things over with his as* fistants and gets their points of view', but when he finally arts, it is Calvin Coolidge who Is responsible and not one or more of Ida ‘‘advisers.” That’s what got his opponents’ 'goat, because no one knew anything about what the president meant to do or not do. That is the reason we intelligent voters like him. trust him implicitly and would vote all over again if we were called upon to do «<i exactly as we did this time, and we have no apolo gies to offer f*»r not voting for the other fellows, because we claim to be Intelligent, and if we had voted for one of the others we could not lay claim to that desirable possession. We know that our president is going t ' do bis duty a* well ms he can, and that i* all we ask, and we in tend to stand back of him and bis ad ministration. We have no use for renegade or bolter statesmen of any1 party, nor have we any use for luke warm adherents who claim to be friendly and dig into one's back when one isn’t looking. We can't he for La Follette and Coolidge, too, so be a 'man or mouse,” and have the good sense to change or stand pat; in other words, don't t»ootlick. .TAMES WELCH. Lay OtT Publicity. Omaha.—To the Editor of The Omaha Iter For the benefit of your many readers who may have relatives in California, or those contemplating a trip to the roast. I wish to give some information (though meager* on the subject of the "puenmonic plague.” From letter* received by me and dated Los Angeles. November 1. no mention by my relatives, visiting there, is made one way or the other of this oubreak *>f the so ailed ‘ pneu monic plague.” By inference, it has come to me that the Associated Press has slipped one over on Los Angeles, and that the news has been suppressed in Los Angeles. I have written for an When in Omaha Hotel Conant 250 Rooms—250 Baths— Rates $2 Ic $3 inside report and will give it to the press. Ret us have the fact, and the truth. Meantime, I can oifly regret exceedingly that a medical education is of so little value in combating dis ease. I am strong at all times for rat ex termination. but it seems a very un worthy way of treating or promot ing—rat poison. I would suggest an orderly, com mon sense campaign of rat destruc I tlon without the use of A. P. pcares to the Injury of any region, or to pro t mote something fantastically theoretl i ral. Raids on "box car rats" before their irrival or before a plague is actually mown to exist, is, to say the least, absurd. Mr. Editor, help us kill the rats, but lay off on such stuff. You may have a wife, son or daughter away ''rom home some time. ANXIOUS. N E T A VTR A G E 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 includes no special sales or free circulation of any kind. | V. A. BRIDGE, Cir. Mgr. j jj Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of October, 1924. W. H. QU1VEY. (Seal) Notary Public ----. 4 II _ SUNN "SIDEUP^ lake Comfort.nor forget , lhat Sunrise n^erfailed _-/ V__—-—-_____ -------- / LITTLE GOLD STAB. (Words by Will M. Maupin; Music by J. AParks. Dcdt rated t11 the Fathers and Mothers of America whos* sons died in the service during the World War.) The little blue star on Its field of white, In a border of deepest red, Has turned to gold in a single night, . And it stands for a soldier dead. O little gold star—o’er the fields of France, Neath the banner he died to save— Your golden beam through the years will gieam To hallow a hero’s grave. O, little gold star, on your field of white! Your hero has paid the price. God comfort the hearts that are sad tonight With the thoughts of your sacrifice, o, little gold star In your bordered red, You gleam for a world made free; For the choice he made and the price he paid For the world and its liberty. O. little gold star! Where the lilies wave O'er the blood-stained fields of France, A soldier sleeps in a soldier's grave Where he stayed the foe's advance. O, little gold star, while the world remains We will honor the. brave and true Who fought and died in their manly pride For the dear Red, White and Blue! Harry Hough gave us the real low-down on the selection of the I lth hour of the Uth day of the 11th month as the exact time for the cessation of hostilities, "There v. s only one ex presslon among the A. K. F. as familiar as 'come 'leven. ex plained Harry. "I reckon the only reason that , was not se lected. Instead of 11, was that It w as too late fo^ breakfast and too early for lunch." Thousands of Omahans cherish pleasant recollections of Gen. George H. Harries, one-time general man ger of the Ne braska Power company. General Harries was ma i>- . - mmandr r of the Nebraska brigade, later split up and divided all over the army, flefore leaving Lincoln General Harries told some friends that he expected to be the first American officer into Berlin, and he was. He was In command of the outfit in the Army of Occupation that was assigned to Kaiser Wilhelm s capital city. A charming French woman visited a hospital near the front and asked a wounded Frenchman how he killed an enemy. T choked them to death." was the reply. Whereupon the French woman Insisted on kissing the hands that had killed an enemy. _ . . . Then she asked the same question of a wounded doughboy in the next eot. T hit 'em to death,’’ was the quick-witted reply. Trust the American doughboy to put it over. WILL M. MAUPIN. - - ■ ^ Portland * Tacoma Seattle and the Orient On luxurious trains through the heart of the scenic West, along the old Oregon Trail _ and 200 miles beside the Columbia River. § The Portland Limited leaves Omaha j| daily 11:55 A M.; the Continental g Limited at 12 J5 A M . and arrives Port- 8 land 6:15 p. m. and 8:30 a. m. third day. f Connections for Alaska and the Orient. gl Rttrrnticns a*i is/onaa.'ie* at City Ticket Office, 1523 Farruim St.. 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